The English fleet continued all the summer in the Mediterranean; they secured Carthagena, which had declared for Charles; they took the town of Alicant by assault, and the castle by capitulation.

Then sailing out of the Straits, one squadron was detached to the West Indies, another to lie at Liston, and the rest were sent home to England.
PRINCE EUGENE OBTAINS A COMPLETE VICTORY OVER THE FRENCH.
Fortune was not more propitious to the French in Italy than in Flanders.
The duke de Vendome having been recalled to assume the command in Flanders after the-battle of Ramillies, the duke of Orleans was placed at the head of the army in Piedmont, under the tutorage and direction of the mareschal de Marsin.

They were ordered to besiege Turin, which was accordingly invested in the month of May, and the operations carried on till the beginning of September.

Great preparations had been made for this siege.

It was not undertaken until the duke of Savoy had rejected all the offers of the French monarch, which were sufficient to have shaken a prince of less courage and fortitude.