The army gave way and mechanically followed the current of flight.

Biron and his aides-de-camp threw themselves into the centre of the troops to stay and to rally them.

They struck at them with their swords, and fired at them.

The camp of Quievrain, the military chest, the carriage of Biron himself, were plundered by the fugitives.
Whilst this defeat, without a battle, humiliated the French army, in its first step, at Quievrain, bloody assassinations stained our flag at Lille.

General Dillon had left that city, the enemy showed itself on the plain to the number of nine hundred men.