The enemy pursued very hotly; the Englishmen stood to repulse, and are put most to the sword.

In this shameful retreat there were slain or drowned to the number of two thousand." The blunt Englishman was justly indignant that an enterprise, so nearly successful, had been ruined by the desertion of its chiefs.

"We had cut the dyke in three places," said he; "but left it most shamefully for want of commandment." Poor Koppen Loppen--whose blunders on former occasions had caused so much disaster--was now fortunate enough to expiate them by a soldier's death.
Admiral Haultain had, as we have seen, been drowned at the commencement of the action.

Justinus de Nassau, at its close, was more successful in his retreat to the ships.

He, too, sprang into the water when the overthrow was absolute; but, alighting in some shallows, was able to conceal himself among weeds and waterlilies till he had divested himself of his armour, when he made his escape by swimming to a boat, which conveyed him to Lillo.