The alarm at last became general, the dawn of a summer's day was fast approaching; the drums beat to arms, and the bold marauders were obliged to effect their retreat, as they best might, hotly pursued by near two thousand men.

Having slain many of, the Spanish army, and lost nearly half their own number, they at last obtained shelter in Wachtendonk.
Soon afterwards the place capitulated without waiting for a battery, upon moderate terms.

Schenk's wife was sent away (28 June 1586) courteously with her family, in a coach and four, and with as much "apparel" as might be carried with her.

His property was confiscated, for "no fair wars could be made with him." Thus, within a few weeks after taking the field, the "dejected, melancholy" man, who was so "out of courage," and the soldiers who were so "marvellously beginning to run away"-- according to the Earl of Leicester--had swept their enemy from every town on the Meuse.

That river was now, throughout its whole course, in the power of the Spaniards.