The redoubt on the other side of the bridge was only held by fifty men, and they were now strengthened by a hundred of the French soldiers.

The Austrians approached, making sure that the town had already been taken, and looking out for a signal that was to be hoisted.

Their astonishment was great, when a heavy musketry fire was opened upon them by the garrison of the outpost, while the guns of the battery on the wall plunged their shot in among them.
"The column was at once halted.

Eugene had regarded the struggle as over, when news was brought to him of the defeat of Mercy's corps by the Irish.

Everywhere else things had gone most favourably.