But it was too late.  The six days were rapidly passing, away.  The governor of Boulogne, Campagnolo, succeeded, by Henry’s command, in bringing a small reinforcement of two or three hundred men into the citadel of Calais during the night of the 22nd of April.  This devoted little band made their way, when the tide was low, along the flats which stretched between the fort of Rysbank and the sea.  Sometimes wading up to the neck in water, sometimes swimming for their lives, and during a greater part of their perilous, march clinging so close to the hostile fortress as almost to touch its guns, the gallant adventurers succeeded in getting into the citadel in time to be butchered with the rest of the garrison on the following day.  For so soon as the handful of men had gained admittance to the gates—­although otherwise the aspect of affairs was quite unchanged—­the rash and weak De Vidosan proclaimed that the reinforcements stipulated in his conditional capitulation having arrived, he should now resume hostilities.  Whereupon he opened fire, upon the town, and a sentry was killed.  De Rosne, furious, at what he considered a breach of faith, directed a severe cannonade against the not very formidable walls of the castle.  During the artillery engagement which ensued the Prince of Orange, who had accompanied De Rosne to the siege, had a very narrow escape.  A cannon-ball from the town took off the heads of two Spaniards standing near him, bespattering him with their blood and brains.  He was urged to retire, but assured those about him that he came of too good a house to be afraid.  His courage was commendable, but it seems not to have occurred to him that the place for his father’s son was not by the aide of the general who was doing the work of his father’s murderer.  While his brother Maurice with a fleet of twenty Dutch war-ships was attempting in vain to rescue Calais from the grasp of the Spanish king, Philip William of Nassau was looking on, a pleased and passive spectator of the desperate and unsuccessful efforts at defence.  The assault was then ordered?  The-first storm was repulsed, mainly by the Dutch companies, who fought in the breach until most of their numbers were killed or wounded, their captains Dominique and Le Gros having both fallen.  The next attack was successful, the citadel was carried; and the whole garrison, with exception of what remained of the Hollanders and Zeelanders, put to the sword.  De Vidosan himself perished.  Thus Calais was once more a Spanish city, and was re-annexed to the obedient provinces of Flanders.  Of five thousand persons, soldiers and citizens, who had taken refuge in the castle, all were killed or reduced to captivity.’