At this period the duke de Noailles invested Gironne, which he reduced notwithstanding the severity of the weather; so that Philip, from a fugitive, became in three months absolute master of the whole Spanish monarchy, except the province of Catalonia, and even that lay open to his incursions.

Nothing of consequence was achieved on the side of Portugal, from whence the earl of Galway returned to England by the queen's permission.

The operations of the British fleet, during this summer, were so inconsiderable as scarce to deserve notice.

Sir John Norris commanded in the Mediterranean, and with a view to support the Camisars, who were in arms in the Cevennois, sailed to Port Cette, within a league of Marseilles, and at the distance of fifteen from the insurgents.

The place surrendered, without opposition, to about seven hundred men that landed under the command of major-general Suissan, a native of Languedoc.