Even Spanish courage and Spanish ferocity were obliged to shrink before the steady determination of a whole population animated by a single spirit.

Romero lost an eye in the conflict, many officers were killed and wounded, and three or four hundred soldiers left dead in the breach, while only three or four of the townsmen lost their lives.

The signal of recall was reluctantly given, and the Spaniards abandoned the assault.
"Don Frederic was now aware that Haarlem would not fall at his feet at the first sound of his trumpet.

It was obvious that a siege must precede the massacre.

He gave orders, therefore, that the ravelin should be undermined, and doubted not that, with a few days' delay, the place would be in his hands." The Prince of Orange then made, from Sassenheim, another attempt to relieve the town, sending 2,000 men.