Villars marched out of his intrenchments with a view to raise the siege; but he did not think proper to hazard an engagement: some warm skirmishes, however, happened between the foragers of the two armies.

After the reduction of Bethune, the allies besieged at one time the towns of Aire and St.
Venant, which were taken without much difficulty.

Then the armies broke up, and marched into winter quarters.
KING CHARLES, OBTAINING A VICTORY AT SARAGOSSA, ENTERS MADRID.
The campaign on the Rhine was productive of no military event; nor was anything of consequence transacted in Piedmont.

The duke of Savoy being indisposed and out of humour, the command of the forces still continued vested in count Thaun, who endeavoured to pass the Alps, and penetrated into Dauphine; but the duke of Berwick had cast up intrenchments in the mountains, and taken such precautions to guard them, as baffled all the attempts of the Imperial general.

Spain was much more fruitful of military incidents.