Some were cut to pieces in the streets; others climbed the walls, and threw themselves head foremost into the moat.

Many were drowned, and but a very few effected their escape.

Justinus de Nassau sprang over the parapet, and succeeded in swimming the ditch.

Kleerhagen, driven into the Holy Cross tower, ascended to its roof, leaped, all accoutred as he was, into the river, and with the assistance of a Scotch soldier, came safe to land.

Ferdinand Truchsess, brother of the ex-elector of Cologne, was killed.