And indeed, we may say, finishes Both the Sicilies: our poor Kaiser having no considerable force in either, nor means of sending any; the Sea-Powers having buttoned their pockets, and the Combined Fleet of France and Spain being on the waters there.
"We need only add, on this head, that, for ten months more, Baby Carlos and Montemar went about besieging, Gaeta, Messina, Syracuse; and making triumphal entries;--and that, on the 30th of June, 1735, Baby Carlos had himself fairly crowned at Palermo.

[_Fastes de Louis XV., i.

278._] 'King of the Two Sicilies' DE FACTO; in which eminent post he and his continue, not with much success, to this day.
"That will suffice for the Two Sicilies.

As to Lombardy again, now that Villars is out of it, and the Coignys and Broglios have succeeded:-- "JUNE 29th, 1734.

Kaiser, rallying desperately for recovery of the Milanese, has sent an Army thither, Graf von Mercy leader of it: Battle of Parma between the French and it (29th June);--totally lost by the Kaiser's people, after furious fighting; Graf von Mercy himself killed in the action.