Malcolm Graheme and others on his staff hesitated, but the king exclaimed, "Ride all, the duke will see to me." The cavalry dashed forward, and the king, accompanied only by Franz Albert, Duke of Lauenberg, turned to leave the field, but he had scarcely moved a few paces when he received another shot in the back.

Calling out to Franz Albert that it was all over with him, the mortally wounded king fell to the ground.
Franz Albert, believing the battle lost, galloped away; the king's page alone remained with the dying man.

A minute later three Austrian cuirassiers rode up, and demanded the name of the dying man.

The page Leubelfing refused to give it, and firing their pistols at him they stretched him mortally wounded beside the dying king.

Gustavus then, but with difficulty, said who he was.