Accompanied by their wives and their children, they assembled in the churches, partook of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, implored Heaven's blessing upon them, and then husbands, brothers, fathers, took affecting leave of their families and repaired to the walls for the deadly strife.
Early on the morning of the 7th the assault commenced.

The impetuosity of the onset was irresistible.

In a few moments the walls were scaled, the streets flooded with the foe, the pavements covered with the dead, and the city on fire in an hundred places.

The conquerors did not wish to encumber themselves with captives.

All were slain.