The attackers managed to fire through loopholes in the fort's walls to distract the garrison, which responded by throwing rocks and grenades over the walls. The French and the Indians fired through the loopholes, trapping much of the garrison within the buildings while the militiamen tried to chop their way in through the wooden walls with tomahawks and the "troupes de la Marine" used their axes to try to smash their way in through the main gate. The tomahawks proved ineffective at smashing through the gate, and Léry in his report mentioned smashing his way in with ""à coup de haches"" ("by ax blows"), suggesting that heavy axes were used. Speaking through an interpreter, Léry demanded that the fort surrender, but he reported that "the fire of the enemy became livelier and more determined". Léry wrote Bull's defense was conducted "with the possible bravery and intrepidity that I have always remarked of with English officers". Collière, the Iroquois chief was killed by a British bullet going through his head fired by Colonel Bull. After Bull refused several calls to surrender, the gate was smashed down at about noon by using a fallen tree trunk as a battering ram, and the attackers stormed into the fort. Ignoring the ineffective British musket fire, the French charged forward and used their bayonets and tomahawks to cut down any British soldier in their path as they raced throughout the fort. One of the Iroquois warriors avenged Collière's death by using his tomahawk to smash in Bull's head. The wife of Bull was killed by an Iroquois warrior who smashed in her face with his tomahawk, scalped her, and in then accidentally caused a fire when he tossed her corpse into a fire, pulled her corpse out with a burning skirt that according to the French "set fire to the house".