Then prince Eugene invested Carmagnola, and carried on the siege with such vigour that in eleven days the garrison capitulated.

Meanwhile the marquis de Hoquincourt undertook the conquest of Montmelian, and reduced the town without much resistance.

The castle, however, made such a vigorous defence that Catinat marched thither in person; and, notwithstanding all his efforts, the place held out till the second day of December, when it surrendered on honourable conditions.
THE EMPEROR'S SUCCESS AGAINST THE TURKS.
This summer produced nothing of importance on the Rhine.

The French endeavoured to surprise Mentz, by maintaining a correspondence with one of the emperor's commissioners; but this being discovered, their design was frustrated.

The imperial army, under the elector of Saxony, passed the Rhine in the neighbourhood of Manheim; and the French, crossing the same river at Philipsburgh, reduced the town of Portzheim in the marquisate of Baden-Dourlach.