The walls were carried by storm, 3000 Turks died with arms in their hands, and the town was given up during three hours to the fury of the French soldiery--who never, as Napoleon confessed, availed themselves of the licence of war more savagely than on this occasion.
A part of the garrison--amounting, according to Buonaparte, to 1200 men, but stated by others as nearly 3000 in number--held out for some hours longer in the mosques and citadel; but at length, seeing no chance of rescue, grounded their arms on the 7th of March.

Eugene Beauharnois, who in person accepted their submission, was violently rebuked by Napoleon for having done so: the soldiery murmured, asking how these barbarians were to be fed, when they themselves were already suffering severe privations.

The General summoned his chief officers to council and, after long discussion, it was resolved that, in this case, necessity left no room for mercy.

On the 10th--three days after their surrender--the prisoners were marched out of Jaffa, in the centre of a battalion under General Bon.

When they had reached the sand-hills, at some distance from the town, they were divided into small parties, and shot or bayoneted to a man.