About one-fourth of that number fell in the army of the king.

It is certain that of the contingent from the obedient Netherlands, two hundred and seventy, including their distinguished general, lost their lives.

The Bastard of Brunswick, crawling from beneath a heap of slain, escaped with life.

Mayenne lost all his standards and all the baggage of his army, while the army itself was for a time hopelessly dissolved.
Few cavalry actions have attained a wider celebrity in history than the fight of Ivry.

Yet there have been many hard-fought battles, where the struggle was fiercer and closer, where the issue was for a longer time doubtful, where far more lives on either side were lost, where the final victory was immediately productive of very much greater results, and which, nevertheless, have sunk into hopeless oblivion.