The square was gradually wasting away, and occupied but half the ground which it had stood upon when the battle began.

And Fuentes, seeing that further resistance could only lead to the annihilation of his little band, felt that no more could be done.

There were no signs of Beck coming to his assistance.

Indeed the troops of that general had been met by the cavalry in their flight; these communicated their own panic to them, and such was the alarm that the division abandoned its baggage and guns and fled from the field, where their arrival might still have turned the tide of battle.
Fuentes at last ordered his officers to signal their surrender.

Enghien rode forward, but, the Spanish soldiers believing that, as before, he was but leading his cavalry against them, poured in a terrible volley.
He escaped by almost a miracle, but his soldiers, maddened by what they believed to be an act of treachery, hurled themselves upon the enemy.
The square was broken, and a terrible slaughter ensued before the exertions of the officers put a stop to it.