The one hundred gained entrance into the fort at a point where the defences had not been put into sufficient repair.
They were immediately followed by Richebourg, at the head of his regiment.

The day was a fatal one.

It was the 10th July, 1584 and William of Orange was falling at Delft by the hand of Balthazar Gerard.
Liefkenshoek was carried at a blow.

Of the eight hundred patriots in the place, scarcely a man escaped.

Four hundred were put to the sword, the others were hunted into the river, when nearly all were drowned.