The alarm was great at the Castle.

Even before this news arrived, Avaux had given it as his opinion that Richard Hamilton was unequal to the difficulties of the situation.

It had therefore been resolved that Rosen should take the chief command.

He was now sent down with all speed, [247] On the nineteenth of June he arrived at the head quarter of the besieging army.

At first he attempted to undermine the walls; but his plan was discovered; and he was compelled to abandon it after a sharp fight, in which more than a hundred of his men were slain.