Everybody was saying: "The English are burning their commissariat; they are going to surrender!" The English had a strong fort on the north, near the place where Commandant De Vos was stationed.

In order to take this _schanze_ one would have been obliged to cross 200 metres of open ground.

Moreover, it was so placed that it was the only part of the English possession which De Vos's guns commanded.

Accordingly, when the sun had gone down, I sent orders to him that he was to storm this _schanze_ before daybreak on the following morning.
My orders were duly carried out.
Commandant De Vos crept stealthily up to the fort, and was not observed by the enemy until he was close to them.

They then fired fiercely on him, killing two of his burghers, but our men would not be denied; they leapt over the _schanze_ and compelled the enemy to surrender.