Spinola placed a battery or two on the hills, and within three days the town surrendered.

The inhabitants expected a scene of carnage and pillage, but not a life was lost.

No injury whatever was inflicted on person or property, according to the strict injunctions of the Archduke.

The 600 Germans were driven out, and 1200 other Germans then serving under Catholic banners were put in their places to protect the Catholic minority, to whose keeping the municipal government was now confided.
Spinola, then entering the territory of Cleve, took session of Orsoy, an important place on the Rhine, besides Duren, Duisburg, Kaster, Greevenbroek and Berchem.

Leaving garrisons in these places, he razed the fortifications of Mulheim, much to the joy of the Archbishop and his faithful subjects of Cologne, then crossed the Rhine at Rheinberg, and swooped down upon Wesel.