Complex sentence: They thought they could get 800 combatants but eventually only 200 men, led by Jean-Olivier Chénier, and Amury Girod lay barricaded in the convent, the church, the rectory and the manor in the centre of the village.
Split into simpler sentences: They thought they could get 800 combatants but eventually only 200 men, led by Jean-Olivier Chénier, and Amury Girod. They layed barricaded in the convent, the church, the rectory and the manor in the centre of the village.