A more successful effort was soon afterwards made in Julich; the Neuburgers were driven out, and the Brandenburgers remained in sole possession of the town and citadel, far the most important stronghold in the whole territory.

This was partly avenged by the Neuburgers, who gained absolute control of Dusseldorf.

Here were however no important fortifications, the place being merely an agreeable palatial residence and a thriving mart.
The States-General, not concealing their predilection for Brandenburg, but under pretext of guarding the peace which they had done so much to establish, placed a garrison of 1400 infantry and a troop or two of horse in the citadel of Julich.
Dire was the anger not unjustly excited in Spain when the news of this violation of neutrality reached that government.

Julich, placed midway between Liege and Cologne, and commanding those fertile plains which make up the opulent duchy, seemed virtually converted into a province of the detested heretical republic.

The German gate of the Spanish Netherlands was literally in the hands of its most formidable foe.
The Spaniards about the court of the Archduke did not dissemble their rage.