Muenzer was captured, and, after having been forced by torture to sign a confession of his misdeeds, was executed.

After this there was no strength left in the peasant cause.
The lords, having gained the upper hand, put down the rising with great cruelty.

The estimates of the numbers of peasants slain vary so widely as to make certainty impossible.

Perhaps a hundred thousand in all perished.

The soldiers far outdid the rebels in savage reprisals.