He likewise made himself master of the town and castle of Eyde; but the duke de Noailles advancing with a body of forces to join the duke de Roquelaire, who commanded in those parts, the English abandoned their conquests, and re-embarked with precipitation.
After the battle of Poultowa the czar of Muscovy reduced all Livonia; but he and king Augustus agreed to a neutrality for Pomerania.

The king of Sweden continued at Bender, and the grand seignor interested himself so much in favour of that prince, as to declare war against the emperor of Russia.

Hostilities were carried on between the Swedish and Danish fleets with various success.

The malcontents in Hungary sustained repeated losses during the summer; but they were encouraged to maintain the war by the rupture between the Ottoman Porte and Russia.

They were flattered with hopes of auxiliaries from the Turks; and expected engineers and money from the French monarch.
{ANNE, 1701--1714} THE WHIG MINISTRY DISGRACED.
In England, the effects of those intrigues which had been formed against the whig ministers began to appear.