United with the Spanish cavalry, these traitorous defenders of Antwerp dashed in pursuit of those who had only been fainthearted.

Thus the burghers saw themselves attacked by many of their friends, deserted by more.

Whom were they to trust?
Nevertheless, Oberstein's Germans were brave and faithful, resisting to the last, and dying every man in his harness.

The tide of battle flowed hither and thither, through every street and narrow lane.
It poured along the magnificent Place de Meer, where there was an obstinate contest.

In front of the famous Exchange, where in peaceful hours, five thousand merchants met daily, to arrange the commercial affairs of Christendom, there was a determined rally, a savage slaughter.
The citizens and faithful Germans, in this broader space, made a stand against their pursuers.