Late in the afternoon he saw a party of the staff officers pressing towards the rear on foot.
"We are going to try to get to the head of the column," one said to Rupert.

"We must force back the Spaniards, or we are all lost." "I will join you," Rupert said, leaping from his horse.
"Hugh, give me my pistols and take your own; leave the horses, and come with me." It took upwards of an hour to make their way along the dyke, sometimes pushing forward between the soldiers, sometimes wading in the ditch, but at last they reached the spot where, over ground high heaped with dead, the battle raged as fiercely as ever.

With a shout of encouragement to the men the party of officers threw themselves in front and joined in the fray.

Desperate as the fighting had been before, it increased in intensity now.

The Dutch, cheered by the leading of their officers, pressed forward with renewed energy.