Marlborough had originally appointed Englishman Holcroft Blood as the engineer to manage the siege.

The Dutch dismissed Blood and instead appointed Guillaume le Vasseur des Rocques and Lucas de Mée to manage the siege.

[3] The next day, the capitulation was signed, allowing the remaining French troops to leave the city with their arms and flags, and march to Lille and Douai in France.

The Sint-Vedastus church, the town hall and the monasteries of the Benedictines and the Capuchins lay in ruins.

[4] In the fortress the Allies recovered some of the guns they had lost at the Battle of Landen in the previous war.