Two Spaniards lost their lives and two thousand Netherlanders.

It was natural that these consummate warriors should despise such easily slaughtered victims.

A single stroke of the iron flail, and the chaff was scattered to the four winds; a single sweep of the disciplined scythe, and countless acres were in an instant mown.
Nevertheless, although beaten constantly, the Netherlanders were not conquered.

Holland and Zealand had read the foe a lesson which he had not forgotten, and although on the open fields, and against the less vigorous population of the more central provinces, his triumphs had been easier, yet it was obvious that the spirit of resistance to foreign oppression was growing daily stronger, notwithstanding daily defeats.
Meantime, while these desultory but deadly combats were in daily progress, the Council of State was looked upon with suspicion by the mass of the population.

That body, in which resided provisionally the powers of government, was believed to be desirous of establishing relations with the mutinous army.