He took ill shortly after this, on 6 December; by some accounts this was a nervous collapse caused by the defeat, and he may have died from the grief, although some historians consider that it may just have been an ordinary fever.
Razbolio se nedugo nakon toga, 6. prosinca; prema nekim navodima bio je to živčani slom uzrokovan porazom, i moguće da je umro od tuge, iako neki povjesničari smatraju da je to mogla biti i obična vrućica.