In the wake of the battle Monluc oversaw the claiming of all the abandoned artillery, having it drawn away from the field by oxen. Duras withdrew with what tattered forces he could find left to Montmoreau by which time he had only 200 men. The majority of the rest of his army was hunted down and summarily executed by Monluc or Burie's forces. Deprived access to all the Gascon infantry he had intended to bring north, Condé and Coligny were forced to rely on German Landsknecht instead for the Battle of Dreux who proved to be weak fighters, though regardless they had much less infantry than they had intended to field. Had Duras successfully withdrawn he might have brought enough infantry north that the royal army would be unwilling to offer battle. Regardless Duras and his remaining men headed north, with Duras dying at the Siege of Orleans in early 1563. The war would formally end following the assassination of the duke of Guise at the siege after which Catherine de' Medici oversaw a compromise peace at Amboise.