Mons was delivered up by its own inhabitants.

Namur might perhaps have been saved if the garrison had been as zealous and determined as the population.

Strange to say, in this place, so long subject to a foreign rule, there was found a patriotism resembling that of the little Greek commonwealths.

There is no reason to believe that the burghers cared about the balance of power, or had any preference for James or for William, for the Most Christian King or for the Most Catholic King.

But every citizen considered his own honour as bound up with the honour of the maiden fortress.