. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. he did it almost alone. The States cavalry, seized with panic, thought only of escape, and gallopedthrough or over their friends in front, throwing the centre in hopeless tried in vain to rally his men ; without making the least resistance,they cast down their arms and followed the cavalry, though with far less chanceof saving their worthless bodies. For an hour and a half Parma and his smallforce, reckoned at from six to twelve hundred, rode about hack
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. he did it almost alone. The States cavalry, seized with panic, thought only of escape, and gallopedthrough or over their friends in front, throwing the centre in hopeless tried in vain to rally his men ; without making the least resistance,they cast down their arms and followed the cavalry, though with far less chanceof saving their worthless bodies. For an hour and a half Parma and his smallforce, reckoned at from six to twelve hundred, rode about hacking and hewing, withscarcely a man hurt. It was a massacre, not a battle. Eight or ten thousand THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. perished—half the army that had been hired to fight for freedom. Six hun-dred prisoners were taken, and all were hanged or drowned. All the cannonand munitions of war, with thirty-four standards, fell into the hands of theSpaniards. AMSTERDAM WON. This victory of Parmas (for it was his alone) profited the governor lessthan might have been expected. Louvain and other small towns opened their. SLAUGHTER OF THE STATES FORCES AT GEMBOURS. gates to him, and several more were taken by force and cruelly punished; butthese included no place of great importance. It was midwinter, and the roads THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 583 were in no condition for military movements. The patriots laid their late defeatat the door of absent, incompetent, or treacherous commanders. There was muchindignation at Brussels, and Orange with difficulty prevented an attack upon cer-tain nobles. Amsterdam, the chief city and capital of Holland, had all this timerefused to join the confederacy. Most of its people were Protestants, but themagistrates were not, and the monks were numerous and active. Ever since theSpanish garrison was removed, the town had been looked upon with angry andcovetous eyes by the zealous liberals of its own province and of Zealand. Orange,whose love for ord
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