[3][9] In 1590 Maurice of Orange decided to strengthen the possibility of besieging Nijmegen, by spreading out the defences and building a fort, a kind of redan, on the city side on high ground.

[6] Parma decided once more to return to lay siege and capture it making the possibility of the Dutch and English troops besieging Nijmegen an impossible task.

On 21 July, De Jong had communications opened by using signals from Dutch held Arnhem with the use of gun shots or fires lit from the church tower.

[14] Early in the following morning the Spaniards assaulted the position; De Jong and his men waited until they were inside the fort and then suddenly opened fire with five or six guns.

[6] The foot soldiers fired a volley and then advanced with the pike, in a short time they were among the attackers and drove them back inflicting more than two hundred casualties including some senior officers killed.

[4] Vere decided on a plan to take advantage of the Spanish activity and this required the deployment of a body of English – 500 horse and 1,200 musketeers and pikemen, a force which was readily placed under his orders by Maurice.

[6] The Dutch and English cavalry rode in groups of "hit and run" and were chased by the Spanish, until they came to the bridge, there turned and suddenly went on the attack as planned.

[15] After Parma's repulse at the sconce and the fact that the best part of his army had been mauled and now at a significant disadvantage to the Dutch and English, he decided the best option was to retreat.

[4] Crossing the Waal was a feat that Parma had achieved in just five hours with two thousand soldiers digging a crescent shaped redoubt in order to cover the retreat.

[12] Parma left overnight and the entire army; with all the batteries, ammunition, and baggage they managed to cross the river unmolested which was a masterpiece in logistical moving.

[4] Parma stayed briefly in Nijmegen, but had received orders from the king Philip II of Spain to call him to France to deal with the Protestants there which the Spanish were helping the French Catholics trying to quell.

A ballad was written by a Londoner titled the Happie Ouerthrowe of the Prince of Parma his powers before the knodtsen burg sconce xxj of July 1591.

[2] English dramatist George Chapman who fought in the campaign under Vere wrote a poem regarding the siege and the defeat of Parma in his Hymnus in Cynthiam part of The Shadow of Night.