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Before his departure, Luxemburg revenged himself on the luckless villages he had captured, which he pillaged and burned to the ground. Pain-et-Vin was afterward tried for breach of duty and executed.
But, happily, his project was defeated by a sudden thaw, which obliged him to return to Utrecht; and had it not been that the fort of Nieuwerburg, situated on the dike, which afforded the only passage thither, was deserted by the commander, Pain-et-Vin, his retreat must have been cut off, and his army exposed to almost certain destruction.
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