In this dreadful emergency they formed themselves into a square, and retired from the field of battle.

By this time the men were quite spent with fatigue, and all their ammunition exhausted: they were ignorant of the country, abandoned by their horse, destitute of provisions, and cut off from all hope of supply.

Moved by these dismal considerations, they capitulated and surrendered themselves prisoners of war, to the amount of thirteen battalions.

The Portuguese, and part of the English horse, with the infantry that guarded the baggage, retreated to Alcira, where they were joined by the earl of Galway, with about five and twenty hundred dragoons which he had brought from the field of battle.

About three thousand men of the allied army were killed upon the spot, and among that number brigadier Killegrew, with many officers of distinction.
The earl of Galway, who charged in person at the head of Guiscard's dragoons, received two deep cuts in the face.