The emperor triumphantly entered the Protestant cities of Ulm and Augsburg, Strasbourg and Frankfort, compelled them to accept humiliating conditions, to surrender their artillery and military stores, and to pay enormous fines.

The Archbishop of Cologne was deposed from his dignities.

The emperor had thrown his foes upon the ground and bound them.
All the Protestant princes but two were vanquished, the Elector of Saxony and the Landgrave of Hesse.

It was evident that they must soon yield to the overwhelming force of the emperor.

It was a day of disaster, in which no gleam of light seemed to dawn upon the Protestant cause.