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they had been surprised. Before they could rally, however, Romero led
Six hundred of the Prince's troops had been put to the sword, while many
flowed outside their camp.html">camp. Only sixty Spaniards lost their lives.
This disaster did not alter the plans of the Prince, for those plans had
destroyed in an instant by the massacre of Saint Bartholomew. He
by birth, but a French chevalier, following him secretly in his camp,
enterprise not destined, however, to be successful. The soldiers flatly
escort for Count Louis, if, by chance, he could be brought out of the
state of his affairs, and to advise him to capitulate on the best terms
besieged in the city.html">city.html">city which he had so gallantly captured, and took his way
troops. His life was, with difficulty, saved from the brutal soldiery--
securities of the Holland cities--by the exertions of the officers who
Orsoy, he disbanded his army.html">army.html">army and betook himself, almost alone, to
heroic than many a conqueror in his day of triumph. With all his hopes
colossal crime of his royal ally, he never lost his confidence in himself
before, had so eagerly raised his standard, now fell off at once. He
looked up to him as its saviour, but he went thither expecting and
sublime expression in a private letter to his brother.
He had advanced to the rescue of Louis, with city after city opening its
Coligny, at the head of a chosen army, and he was now obliged to leave
confederates substituted for their expected army of assistance, and with
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