He had been obliged to recal that commander during the siege of Grave.

The place being reduced, Alexander, before the grass could grow beneath his feet advanced to the Rhine in person.

Early in July he appeared before the walls of Neusz with eight thousand foot and two thousand horse.

The garrison under Kloet numbered scarcely more than sixteen hundred effective soldiers, all Netherlanders and Germans, none being English.
The city is twenty-miles below Cologne.

It was so well fortified that a century before it had stood a year's siege from the famous Charles the Bold, who, after all, had been obliged to retire.