The Walloons and Spaniards fled in dismay; many of them were killed in the fort, and along the dykes; others were hurled into the Scheldt.

The victors followed up their success by reducing, with equal impetuosity, the fort of Saint Anthony, situate in the neighbourhood farther down the river.

They thus gained entire command of all the high ground, which remained in that quarter above the inundation, and was called the Doel.
The dyke, on which Liefkenshoek stood, led up the river towards Kalloo, distant less than a league.

There were Parma's head-quarters and the famous bridge.

But at Fort Saint Mary; where the Flemish head of that bridge rested, the dyke was broken.