About ten in the evening
The tocsin had been rung in the three neighbouring parishes , and about seven hundred men had been collected . These men all possessed muskets , but they themselves had no ammunition , and the whole supply which could be found in the district , including the little depot at Clisson , only sufficed to give the men some three and some four rounds each . When Westerman , with his ten thousand men , retreated from about seven hundred , the royalists had not one charge of powder to three muskets among them . About ten in the evening Henri and de Lescure returned on foot from the battle to the château of Clisson . Henri still had the red scarf round his neck and waist , and stuck in the latter he had three or four pistols , of various sizes , all of which had been used in the recent engagement . On his shoulder he held a rifle , which he carried like a fowling-piece , and he walked home with the air and look of a man returning from a day 's sport , well contented with the execution he had done . Not so de Lescure : he was thoughtful , if not sad ; and though he would not , either by a tone or a look , rebuke the gaiety of his companion , it was very evident that he did not share it .