One would have thought the French more likely to prove successful in their enterprise than the Spaniards in theirs.

The Spaniards were enemies against whom the city had long been on its guard.
The French were friends in whose sincerity a somewhat shaken confidence had just been restored.

When the Spanish attack was made, a large force of defenders was drawn up in battle array behind freshly strengthened fortifications.

When the French entered at leisure through a scarcely guarded gate, the whole population and garrison of the town were quietly eating their dinners.

The numbers of the invading forces on the two occasions did not materially differ; but at the time of the French Fury there was not a large force of regular troops under veteran generals to resist the attack.