...prepares to besiege Lille. This siege, the…

...prepares to besiege Lille.

This siege, the greatest undertaking of the entire campaign, lasts from the tenth to the the twenty-eighth of August, when the Spanish garrison capitulates in return for being allowed to freely withdraw.

As the Marquis de Castel-Rodrigo has not yet been informed of the fall of the city, he sends another army of twelve thousand men under the Marquis de Marchin, to relieve Lille.

This army on August 21, comes upon the corps of the French Marquis de Créquy, which Maréchal de Turenne has meanwhile drawn up to cover the siege.

This battle is decided in favor of the French, and the troops of the Marquis de Marchin have to withdraw.