The prisoners numbered six thousand men, of whom six hundred were gentlemen of position.
Of De Montmorency's fine army of twenty-two thousand men all were slain2 or captured, save five thousand. Among the slain were some of the noblest of the sons of France, notably3 Jean de Bourbon, Count d'Enghien, a prince of the blood.
On the side of the Spaniards less than a thousand fell, among them being Count Brederode (who perished in the morass4, smothered5 in his armour6) and Counts Spiegelbourg and Waldeck.
On the next day King Philip himself rode into the camp; he had left Brussels and was at Cambrai when the battle took place. He was received with all the honours of war—with unbounded enthusiasm!
The unhappy prisoners were paraded before him in long procession, and the captured standards were placed at his feet—the camp was delirious7 with joy.
A council of war was forthwith held to decide on future operations.
With fiery9 zeal10 Egmont and Gonzaga urged that an immediate11 march on Paris should be made.
"Send me on with the cavalry12, sire, and I promise you that in four days you shall sup in Paris!" cried Egmont.
But Philip was as cautious as his renowned13 father, Charles the Fifth, was adventurous14.
When the news of the battle reached the abdicated15 Emperor, his first inquiry16 was "whether Philip was in Paris."
There were many difficulties to be surmounted17 ere that glorious consummation could be reached, and Philip laid them before the council.
"St. Quentin must first be taken! Between them and Paris there existed many a strong fortress18, and wide rivers which must be crossed. Moreover, Paris would not surrender lightly—its citizens could man the walls with forty thousand men at least.
"Again, Condé and Nevers, with the relics19 of the broken army, must be reckoned with. Ere long Guise20 would come to their support."
So the King argued, and the council reluctantly agreed that all their efforts should now be concentrated on the capture of St. Quentin.
Before the council broke up King Philip called Egmont to him, and taking the collar of the Golden Fleece from his own person, placed it upon the neck of the Count as the real hero of the day!
All Spain ratified21 the King's deed; "Egmont and St. Quentin" became the rallying cry of the nation, and the fame of the brave Hollander reached the farthest limits of the mighty22 empire over which Philip ruled.
With royal generosity23 Philip bestowed24 rich rewards on the chieftains assembled in council that day. To Savoy princely rank and high office near his person, and to all others guerdons according to their rank.
There was a great meeting in Egmont's tent that night. Thither26 came the English lords—Pembroke, Gray, and Clinton—and at the banquet-table sat Spanish and Flemish nobles of high degree, many of them bearing the traces of battle upon them, yet all were jubilant and triumphant27.
Behind the great chiefs stood their aides-de-camp, according to Spanish custom, and among these young warriors28 were Geoffrey, Ralph, and William.
Ere the revelry had grown to its height and had become uproarious, Egmont's eye fell upon the three English youths and, with the generosity of his noble nature, he called them before him, inquired their name, and shook each by the hand.
"You rode well to-day, my gallant29 young soldiers, and I saw you deal many a lusty blow for the honour of Spain and the Netherlands," he said. "I marked how you stood by the fallen Constable31, and though two Spaniards, as I hear, claim the honour of his capture, you certainly rescued his body. You will not forget the day of St. Quentin: I will give you something whereby to remember it."
Then he called his major-domo to him, and taking a huge gold goblet32 into his hand, he cried—
"Fill this goblet with golden ducats."
It was soon done, for King Philip had given him five thousand that day.
"Take it, boys, and divide the money among you and toss for the cup! Well do you deserve it. England may be proud of her sons if they are all such as you!"
What wonder that Almoral, Count Egmont, was the hero, the darling, almost the demi-god of those who served under his banner.
This was the bright and glittering side of war. Alas33! how little men recked of the desolation, death, despair and destruction it caused! How little thought they in Egmont's tent that night of the unburied dead whose cold bodies lay on the blood-stained battlefield of St. Quentin! How little of the broken hearts, the shattered hopes, the desolate34 homes in the fair regions of sunny France when the news of that fatal day should be borne to the humiliated35 but proud nation!
The next day the Spanish camp resounded36 with the preparations for the renewed siege of St. Quentin. Fresh batteries were thrown up on all sides on which the artillery, captured from the French, was planted, and, ere many hours had passed, a furious cannonade burst forth8 upon the crumbling37 fortifications of the doomed38 city. Mines were planted, and galleries excavated39 almost to the very centre of St. Quentin.
Yet no thought of surrender occupied the valiant40 heart of Admiral Coligni!
It was at this point that his heroism41 and devotion to duty reached its height. He knew that the hopes of France depended upon the city being held till succour came, till the conquering army under Guise could arrive!
The able-bodied men of his garrison42 numbered but eight hundred, and these were half-starved and well-nigh worn out by incessant43 exertion44.
By night, by day, sleepless45 yet indefatigable46, the gallant Admiral shared the dangers and the labours of his men; cheering, exhorting47, praising every desperate deed of valour and immediately rewarding it, the Admiral was the very life and soul of the defence!
Help came to him unexpectedly.
De Nevers, with the relics of the shattered army, still lingered in the neighbourhood, and he managed to throw one hundred and fifty arquebusiers into the town, though thrice that number perished in the attempt.
Coligni formed countermines, and in subterranean48 regions fierce combats took place between the besieged49 and the besiegers,—men fought like demons50!
Yet he knew that the last provisions were being consumed, that huge breaches51 were being made in the crumbling walls which St. Remy, the renowned French engineer, strove to repair, under cover of night, with desperate energy. Huge timbers were dragged to the top of the tottering53 ramparts, and under their shelter the arquebusiers kept up a perpetual fire on the Spaniards.
Thus the siege went on till August 27. In vain did Coligni scan the horizon from the top of the cathedral tower—Guise came not!
A most furious cannonade from the Spanish batteries on the night of the twenty-sixth had resulted in the making of eleven great breaches in the ramparts, and the Duke of Savoy saw that the time had come for a general assault upon the city.
Early in the morning he put his whole force under arms, assigning to the English contingent54 the honour of leading the assault.
Coligni saw that the decisive hour was at hand. He filled the breaches with his troops, taking charge of the most dangerous one himself, while his brother Daudelot took another almost equally critical.
The spirit of the defenders55 was magnificent, each man felt that the end was near, and they were prepared to die under the ruins of the city; none thought of surrender, no white flag was unfurled!
Savoy preluded56 the general assault by a furious cannonade, and it was not till the afternoon that the signal was given by the shrill57 voices of the trumpets58 for the great onslaught.
Then the English rushed forward, closely followed by Spaniards, Germans, and Flemish in generous rivalry59. King Philip beheld60 the wondrous61 scene from a neighbouring hill, and his troops, knowing that they were fighting under the eye of their Sovereign, were inspired with heroic zeal.
It was a titanic62 struggle!
For a whole hour the gaunt and famished63 Frenchmen held their foes64 in check, and at length the Spaniards were driven off—not a single breach52 had been carried.
Savoy gave his men a brief breathing time, then the clarions pealed65 forth their wild notes again, and the fierce strife66 burst forth anew.
The Duc's keen eye had noted67 a weak point in the defence.
A strong tower on the ramparts had been left with few defenders, in reliance upon its apparent invulnerability. On this point Savoy hurled68 the English contingent, and in one great rush it was carried and the invaders69 poured into the city.
In vain had Coligni rushed to its defence, fighting desperately70, hand-to-hand, with the assailants. He was overpowered and, with his heroic brother Daudelot, was taken prisoner.
Immediately he was led through one of the excavated passages by his captor, Francisco Diaz, to the exterior71 of the city and into the presence of King Philip, who gave Diaz ten thousand ducats.
Then a fierce onslaught by the whole army swept all resistance before it, and in half-an-hour the city was captured!
Philip entered the city in complete armour, a page carrying his helmet; and a roar of savage72 triumph went up from his troops as they beheld their King. He had never been present at the storming of a city before, and the sights that met his eye moved even his stony73 heart to pity.
The wild schwartzreiters spared neither age nor sex. As the Frenchmen retreated to the market-place, where their final slaughter74 took place, the troops entered the well-built houses of the citizens, slaying76 every living soul within them and loading themselves with rich plunder77, some obtaining two or three thousand ducats apiece. In pure recklessness they set the houses on fire, and soon the whole city was ablaze78.
Philip gave immediate orders that the fires should be quenched79, and that all who surrendered should be admitted to pardon.
Crowds of women and children threw themselves at his feet with loud cries for mercy, and he ordered them to be escorted out of the city.
But the cruel storm of savage lust30 and thirst for blood had passed beyond human control.
As the flames spread to the cathedral and the churches, the women who had taken refuge within the sacred walls came pouring forth, panic-stricken with fear. Many of them were richly dressed, some even wore jewels, perhaps thinking them safer in their possession than if they had been left in the doomed town.
Upon these helpless women the wild Germans rushed with savage cries, their ornaments80 and even their rich garments were torn from them, and the mad reiters slashed81 their faces with their daggers82 and knives.
An infernal din25 filled the air, screams of anguish83, cries for mercy, mingled84 with the demoniac shouts and curses of the conquerors85.
Under the walls of the venerable cathedral stood a company of English soldiers; they had been sent by Philip to perform a curious duty.
In that building, dedicated86 to his honour, were stored up the relics of St. Quentin, and Philip had ordered that the venerated87 bones of the Saint should be conveyed to the camp with all honour, and that a mass should be sung before them.
And this while the blazing streets were full of the dead and dying, while helpless children and hapless maidens88 were being dismembered, while blood ran in torrents89 on every side.
Alas, that the royal pity should thus be extended to the dead and denied to the living!
Among the English group stood Lord Clinton's three aides-de-camp, gazing on the scene with sullen90 anger. Many a helpless babe and terror-stricken mother had they rescued in obedience91 to Philip's own command.
Suddenly a young Frenchwoman, richly dressed, rushed towards them followed by a mounted reiter. Ere she could reach the place of safety the trooper overtook her, and with one cruel sweep of his sword lopped off her right arm. She fell to her feet and the soldier lifted his sword again, with the evident intent of depriving her of both her arms. But ere he could accomplish his fell purpose Ralph sprang forward with a shout.
"Devil, fiend and assassin!" he cried, as he ran his sharp rapier through the reiter's sword-arm.
The German's weapon dropped from his right hand, and with his left he strove to draw a pistol from his holster, as he turned fiercely upon his assailant. But pain and anguish overcame him, and he reeled from his saddle.
The deed had been seen by his comrades, and, in an instant, a troop of them faced the English, who had leapt to Ralph's side, with wild cries of vengeance92. They had dragged their wounded comrade into their midst, now they drew their huge pistols from their holsters and, advancing on the English, their leader cried, as he pointed93 to Ralph—
"Deliver that man up to us or we will slay75 you all!"
It was at this critical moment that the great door of the cathedral was thrown open and a white-robed procession of priests issued from it; they were bearing forth the relics of St. Quentin in obedience to the King's command. And on the southern side of the place the King, in his flashing Milanese armour, and mounted on his war-horse, advanced to meet them, greeting the sacred relics with bowed head.
His royal presence quelled94 the tumult96; all weapons were lowered till the King should have passed on his way. But the King's keen eye had noted that something unusual had happened—that the English and the Germans were confronting each other in deadly hostility97.
He beckoned98 Count Mansfeld to his side, the reiter chieftain had been riding behind him. Pointing to the two groups of soldiers, he said—
"Something has gone amiss. Your brave reiters, Count, are getting out of hand. Stay here with fifty of my guards, inquire into the case and report it to me this night."
Mansfeld bowed low in acquiescence99, and the King rode slowly off in the rear of the priestly procession. The instant the King was gone the Count turned sternly on the offenders100 as the fifty guards drew up behind him.
The old Count was the sternest disciplinarian in the Spanish army, and all men knew it. None but he could bring an enraged101, riotous102 reiter to order.
"Come hither, Friedrich," he said in cold tones of command to the leader of the German troop. "Tell me briefly103, what means this?"
"Yon Englishman," said Friedrich, "ran his poniard through Gustav's arm, and we were about to avenge104 him."
"And wherefore did he that?" said Mansfeld.
The reiter captain hesitated, and the Count's face grew sternly fierce.
"Was that the cause?" he said, pointing to where the body of the woman lay.
She had gone into a swoon, and beside her lay her severed105 arm.
"I see," said the Count, with increased severity; "and the Englishman avenged106 her; was not that so?"
The reiter captain still remained silent.
"Yet you knew of the King's command that mercy should be shown to all women and children."
Then he turned to his escort.
"Take that wounded man," he said, pointing to the schwartzreiter, now craven with fear and crying for mercy, "hang him from yon turret107 forthwith in token that the King's order must be obeyed!"
The order was instantly obeyed.
The night was coming down upon the unhappy city and no deed of justice, no royal order could quell95 the thirst for blood, for rapine and pillage108 which possessed109 the mad soldiery who held St. Quentin in their power that night. The powers of evil took full possession of the fallen town—it was given over to sack and pillage.
The chieftains had retired110 to the camp to celebrate their victory with banquets, the King was holding high service over the relics of St. Quentin, the army was left in possession of the city. It was burning in every part, and houses were falling with thunderous sound.
Yet the soldiers dashed through flame and smoke like demons, in eager search for booty. The cellars were plundered111, the garrets were searched, nothing escaped the greed and brutality112 of the plunderers.
The streets were strewn with the bodies and dismembered limbs of the vanquished113, and famished dogs were ravenously114 gnawing115 human flesh.
Such women as had escaped had been again driven by Philip's order into the cathedral, and there were left to perish by famine!
Yet, while sin and crime lifted their heads high and unabashed, there were three delinquents116 who met condign117 punishment, and their case was a singular one.
Three Germans made their way into the vestry of the cathedral, and they emerged thence clothed in gorgeous copes and chasubles. Mounting their horses outside the cathedral, they rode gaily118 about the burning town, their strange attire119 attracting laughter and derision from their comrades.
By some strange fatality120 this escapade came to the ears of Philip, perhaps the royal chaplain informed him of it.
The offenders were instantly sought for and arrested. Philip ordered all of the three to be hanged! His sensitive soul could not endure this outrage121 upon religion, though for three days and three dreadful nights he had allowed the pillage of the city to continue.
On the morning of the fourth day all soldiers were ordered into camp. The desolated122 city was left in peace—it was the peace of the dead!
So fell St. Quentin!
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