The Germans attacked their lines without hesitation; and though the Musselmen fought with incredible fury, they were a third time defeated with great slaughter.
This defeat was attended with the loss of Widen, which being surrendered to the victor, he distributed his troops in winter quarters, and returned to Vienna covered with laurels.
DEATH OF POPE INNOCENT XI.
The French were likewise baffled in their attempt upon Catalonia, where the duke de Noailles had taken Campredon in the month of May.

Leaving a garrison in this place, he retreated to the frontiers of France, while the duke de Villa Hermosa, at the head of a Spanish army, blocked up the place and laid Rousillon under contribution.

He afterwards undertook the siege in form, and Noailles marched to its relief; but he was so hard pressed by the Spaniards that he withdrew the garrison, dismantled the place, and retreated with great precipitation.

The French king hoped to derive some considerable advantage from the death of Pope Innocent XL which happened on the twelfth day of August.

That pontiff had been an inveterate enemy to Louis ever since the affair of the franchises, and the seizure of Avignon.