Monseigneur returned early to Versailles.
At sea we were more active.

The rich merchant fleet of Smyrna was attacked by Tourville; fifty vessels were burnt or sunk, and twenty-seven taken, all richly freighted.

This campaign cost the English and Dutch dear.

It is believed their loss was more than thirty millions of ecus.
The season finished with the taking of Charleroy.

On the 16th of September the Marechal de Villeroy, supported by M.de Luxembourg, laid siege to it, and on the 11th of October, after a good defence, the place capitulated.