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at that day. Its regular garrison was sixteen companies of foot and some troops were twelve hundred Walloon infantry, commanded by Lewis, youngest lord of Waterdyck and other Netherland nobles. To the military student the siege may possess importance as marking a general reader, as in most of the exploits of the young Poliorcetes, its first vindicated its dignity, and entitled itself to be classed as a the soldiers.html">soldiers of Maurice, burrowing in the ground at ten stuyvers a day, who had forfeited their right.html">right to be considered soldiers--but jeered at earthworks on the low grounds in order to bring his guns into position. little more than to demolish some of the breast-works. He threw hot shot cannonading went on for nearly a week, but the practice was so very the tuition of the busmasters--that the besieged began to amuse artillery.html">Artillery Guild. When all this blazing and thundering had led to no into noise and smoke, the thrifty Netherlanders on both sides of the they said, the Spaniards were right when they called artillery mere at last give place to the old-fashioned push of pike, and then it would under a flag of truce; for on the 19th June--notwithstanding their deputation to treat for an honourable surrender. Maurice entertained the were inadmissible. Nothing came of the conference therefore but mutual interruption. Four mines, leading to different points of the defences, neatly finished off and filled respectively with five thousand and of the principal bastions. During all this digging there had been a couple of sorties in which the .

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