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Brantome states the number of Turks killed at thirty thousand, without counting those who were drowned or who died afterwards of their wounds; six thousand prisoners, twelve thousand Christian prisoners liberated, and ten thousand Christians killed. Hoofd, vi. 214, gives the figures at twenty-five thousand Turks and ten thousand Christians slain.
Some of the officers were deadly opposed to a surrender; others and they were the majority were in favour of it. Nothing, however, was decided at that meeting, for a Hoofd Commandant had first to be elected before any steps could be taken. A second meeting of officers for the purpose of electing a Chief Commandant was next held.
It would certainly be presumptuous to accept implicitly the narrative of de Thou, which is literally followed by Hoofd and by many modern writers. On the other hand, it would be an exaggeration of historical scepticism to absolve Philip from the murder of his son, solely upon negative testimony. The people about court did not believe in the crime. They saw no proofs of it. Of course they saw none.
The great history of Hoofd, in which the splendid pictures and the impassioned drama of the great war of independence were to be preserved for his countrymen through all time, was not yet written.
It was the opinion of, many that they had been drowned in the river; of others, that they had been burned. Bor, vii. 491, 492. Hoofd, Bentivoglio, ubi sup. The Walloon historian, occasionally cited in these pages, has a more summary manner of accounting for the fate of these distinguished personages.
Even Requesens was as much in doubt as to the King's secret purposes as Margaret of Parma had ever been in former times. Prinst., Archives, etc., v 259- 262; Bor, viii. 606, 615; Meteren, v. 100; Hoofd, g. 410. Count John of Nassau was distrustful and disdainful from the beginning.
Even Requesens was as much in doubt as to the King's secret purposes as Margaret of Parma had ever been in former times. Prinst., Archives, etc., v 259- 262; Bor, viii. 606, 615; Meteren, v. 100; Hoofd, g. 410. Count John of Nassau was distrustful and disdainful from the beginning.
Had Hoofd written for a wider audience, it would be difficult to name a contemporary author of any nation whose work would have been more profoundly studied or more generally admired. But the great war had not waited to be chronicled by the classic and impassioned Hoofd.
It was the opinion of, many that they had been drowned in the river; of others, that they had been burned. Bor, vii. 491, 492. Hoofd, Bentivoglio, ubi sup. The Walloon historian, occasionally cited in these pages, has a more summary manner of accounting for the fate of these distinguished personages.
Had Hoofd written for a wider audience, it would be difficult to name a contemporary author of any nation whose work would have been more profoundly studied or more generally admired. But the great war had not waited to be chronicled by the classic and impassioned Hoofd.
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