The French limited themselves to defending what they already had and William III first wanted to await the outcome of the expedition to Brest.

The Anglo-Dutch army was reinforced by 6,000 Bavarian troops in the pay of Spain and numbered 84,000 men in total.

[1][2] When this became clear to William III he sent the Duke of Holstein Plön and Menno van Coehoorn with an army to take the city of Huy.

The 780 remaining defenders of the original 1200 were allowed to march out with the honours of war.

William III felt that enough had been achieved this year: He had captured Diksmuide earlier that year and due to the capture of Huy the allies did not have to keep as many troops on garrison duty in Liége, and the Meuse was again in allied hands up to Namur.