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 ing at the principal attack, and the bravery of the French, throwing his men into confusion, he was obliged to draw off his troops with the loss of two thousand five hundred men. The King, who expected that Philip would march with all expedition to join the Spanish army in time; resolved to lose none, and quitting the attack on Clermont, determined, as Riom was in his possession, to pass on without it. His Majesty using the same expedition, advanced to Issiorre, which to his utter astonishment, he found deserted; pursuing his march therefore, he arrived at Flour, and was hardly in sight of the town, before he ordered it to be attacked; the fury of this attack, which was made at once in five places, only seemed to raise the courage of the Governour; but nothing could resist the English: after four hours hot action, they carried it by storm.