Thus it was difficult to say whether the "ragged rogues" of Elizabeth or the maimed and neglected soldiers of Philip were in the more pitiable plight.
The only consolation in the recent reduction of Neusz was to be found in the fact that Parma had only gained a position, for the town had ceased to exist; and in the fiction that he had paid for his triumph by the loss of six thousand soldiers, killed and wounded.

In reality not more than five hundred of Farnese's army lost their lives, and although the town, excepting some churches, had certainly been destroyed; yet the Prince was now master of the Rhine as far as Cologne, and of the Meuse as far as Grave.

The famine which pressed so sorely upon him, might now be relieved, and his military communications with Germany be considered secure.
The conqueror now turned his attention to Rheinberg, twenty-five miles farther down the river.
Sir Philip Sidney had not been well satisfied by the comparative idleness in which, from these various circumstances; he had been compelled to remain.

Early in the spring he had been desirous of making an attack upon Flanders by capturing the town of Steenberg.

The faithful Roger Williams had strongly seconded the proposal.