On the 5th June, thirty-five pieces of artillery commenced the work; the mining and countermining-continuing seventeen days; on the 22nd the assault was made, and the garrison capitulated immediately afterwards.

It was a siege conducted in a regular and business-like way, but the details possess no interest.

It was, however, signalized by the death of one of the eminent adventurers of the age, Marshal Strozzi.

This brave, but always unlucky soldier was slain by a musket ball while assisting the Duke of Guise--whose arm was, at that instant, resting upon his shoulder--to point a gun at the fortress.
After the fall of Thionville, the Due de Guise, for a short time, contemplated the siege of the city of Luxemburg, but contented himself with the reduction of the unimportant places of Vireton and Arlon.

Here he loitered seventeen days, making no exertions to follow up the success which had attended him at the opening of the campaign.