He killed several with his own hand, but the troops were not to be rallied.

His quick triumph was changed into an absolute defeat.
Parma, furious at the ignominious result of a plan from which so much had been expected, ordered the Walloon captain, from whose delinquency so much disaster had resulted, to be forthwith hanged.

"Such villainy," said he, "must never go unpunished." It was impossible for the Prince to send a second expedition to attempt the reduction of Ostend, for the patriots were at last arousing themselves to the necessity of exertion.

It was very obvious--now that the bridge had been built, and the Kowenstyn fortified--that one or the other was to be destroyed, or Antwerp abandoned to its fate.
The patriots had been sleeping, as it were, all the winter, hugging the delusive dream of French sovereignty and French assistance.

No language can exaggerate the deadly effects from the slow poison of that negotiation.