[The Rise of the Dutch Republic Volume I.(of III) 1555-66 by John Lothrop Motley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Rise of the Dutch Republic Volume I.(of III) 1555-66 CHAPTER II 96/138
Of twenty-one or two thousand remarkably fine and well-appointed troops, all but six thousand had been killed or made prisoners within an hour.
The Constable himself, with a wound in the groin, was a captive.
The Duke of Enghien, after behaving with brilliant valor, and many times rallying the troops, was shot through the body, and brought into the enemy's camp only to expire.
The Due de Montpensier, the Marshal de Saint Andre, the Due de Loggieville, Prince Ludovic of Mantua, the Baron Corton, la Roche du Mayne, the Rhinegrave, the Counts de Rochefoucauld, d'Aubigni, de Rochefort, all were taken.
The Due de Nevers, the Prince of Conde, with a few others, escaped; although so absolute was the conviction that such an escape was impossible, that it was not believed by the victorious army.
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