The English forces, having been defeated earlier that day at the siege of Saint-Martin, pulled back to the village of Loix, where their ships were anchored.

[1] The army was commanded by George Villiers, the first duke of Buckingham, and was composed of 12 infantry regiments and 4 cannons, as well as several volunteer rochelais protestants,[2] all covered by the cavalry, consisting of about 68[3] horses.

[2] The Maréchal de Schomberg, having crossed the village of La Couarde, was informed by Marillac of the English position.

[6] Judging the time to be right, the Maréchal ordered the cavalry captain Bussi-Lamet to charge the English rearguard with his squadron.

Many English were killed, including Sir William Cunningham, and others were captured, including Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport, colonel of the English cavalry, and half-brother of Sir Charles Rich and the count Holland,[9] Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland.

After having crossed the bridge, the French forces, guided by Marillac, confronted Sir Thomas Fryar and Lieutenant-Colonel Hackluit commanding 40 pikes and 20 musketeers guarding the artillery and munitions.

They charged a final time, were repelled again and withdraw from battle and crossed the bridge back, chased by the English.

A few days later, when the sailing conditions became better, Crosby burned the bridge, and the surviving English forces embarked on their ships.

He only had a dozen men left, including Feuquiere and Porcheux, captain of the guards regiment,[14] that stood their ground and held the line.

Saligny and his men, however, held on and contained the English, allowing the French soldiers to get refreshed and return to the melee.

The causeway to Loix was covered in bodies, the ditches were full of men that were knocked unconscious in the mud.

The English soldiers fled on every side, in the marshes, on the ditches' crossings, in the vineyards, constantly under fire from the French troops that chased them.

[6] Schonberg ordered the French troops pursuing the English to Loix to stop because they needed to rally and reorganize.

[13] Colonel Grey fell in a salt-pit during the battle, and shouted out to save his life, "A hundred thousand crowns for my ransom!".

He would however not be able to stay true to his word, being assassinated by John Felton at the Greyhound Pub in Portsmouth on 23 August 1628, before the departure of the second expedition.

[6] Two centuries later, salt producers near the bridge of Feneau opened a pit to bury the many bones, bullets, and cannonballs scattered around on the ground.