so up to two of the bastions of the town.

Turenne commanded the attack against the right bastion, de Gramont
that on the left. They first diverted a brook running through the
plain, and were enabled to use its channel as an approach, thus
advancing fifteen hundred paces nearer to the town. They then
formed an intrenchment that could be used by both columns, and
from this on the 1st of September they began to open their trenches
against their respective bastions. De Gramont's works were attacked
on the following day by a sortie; this, however, was driven back.
On the fifth night both columns made a lodgment on the counterscarp,
and their batteries opened fire. After some days' work they filled
up the ditch, and seeing that his force was too weak to oppose so
strong an attack, the commander surrendered on the 12th of September.

Although Merci was advancing with an army, Enghien continued the
project that had been formed, and, remaining with his own troops
to protect Philippsburg, sent Turenne with all his horse and five
hundred foot to Worms, which threw open its gates. Oppenheim
surrendered without resistance, and he arrived in front of Mayence.
The garrison was very small, and upon the threat of Turenne that
he would attack it on all sides the citizens sent a deputation
offering to capitulate. Turenne sent word of this to Enghien, who
rode there at once, and received the surrender of the town. Bingen
capitulated; Landor, Mannheim, Neustadt, and several other places
were taken; and thus from Strasburg to a point near Coblenz,
the whole course of the Rhine, the Palatine, and all the country
between the Rhine and the Moselle fell into the hands of the
French. Enghien returned to pass the winter in Paris. The greater
part of the army was recalled, and Turenne was left with but a