text:  At Sichem the indignation of the Burgundians against a body of French troops which after the battle of Gembloux had pledged itself never again to bear arms against Spain caused them to have a hundred soldiers strangled by night and their bodies flung into the moat at the foot of the citadel; after which the town was given up by Prince Alexander to pillage and spoliation! Terrified by such an example Diest and Leeuw hastened to capitulate