The attack on the redoubt had been a feint however; the Spaniards were at that very moment swarming all over the three external forts, the "South Square", the "West Square", and the "Polder Square". The Spanish had planted rope-ladders, swung themselves over the walls while the fight had been going on at the "Porcespic". The three positions were in the hands of the Spaniards by the time the fight at the "Porcespic" was over. Dorp did his best to rally the fugitives, and to encourage those who had remained. The next day the Spaniards consolidated their new positions and they turned the newly captured guns upon the main counterscarp of the town. The cost had been heavy on both sides, around fifteen hundred were casualties – besiegers and besieged- during the assault.