Norris and Hohenlo fought at the head of their columns, like paladins of old.

The Englishman was wounded in the mouth and breast, the Count was seen to gallop past one thousand musketeers and caliver-men of the enemy, and to escape unscathed.

But as the strength of the soldiers exhausted itself, the violence of the tempest increased.

The floods of rain and the blasts of the hurricane at last terminated the affray.

The Spaniards, fairly conquered, were compelled to a retreat, lest the rapidly rising river should sweep away the frail and trembling bridge, over which they had passed to their unsuccessful assault.