Philip, in the meantime, who had much energy and popularity of character, was rapidly retrieving his losses, and troops were flocking to his camp from all parts of Spain. He established his court at Yalladolid, about one hundred and fifty miles north-east from Madrid. His troops, dispersed by the two disastrous battles, were reassembled at Lerida. The peasants rose in large numbers and joined them, and cut off all communication between Charles at Madrid and his ships at Barcelona. The Spanish grandees sent urgent messages to France for succors. General Yendome, at the head of three thousand horse, swept through the defiles of the Pyrenees, and, with exultant music and waving banners, joined Philip at Valladolid. Universal enthusiasm was excited. Soon thirty thousand infantry entered the camp, and then took positions on the Tagus, where they could cut off any reinforcements which might attempt to march from Portugal to aid the invaders. Charles was apparently in a desperate situation. Famine and consequent sickness were in his camp. His army was daily dwindling away. He was emphatically in an enemy's country. Not a soldier could stray from the ranks without danger of assassination. He had taken Madrid, and Madrid was his prison. CHAPTER XXII. JOSEPH I. AND CHARLES VI. From 1710 to 1717. Perplexities in Madrid.--Flight of Charles.--Retreat of the Austrian Army.--Stanhope's Division Cut Off.--Capture of Stanhope.--Staremberg Assailed.--Retreat to Barcelona.--Attempt to Pacify Hungary.--The Hungarian Diet.--Baronial Crowning of Kagotsky.--Renewal of the Hungarian War.--Enterprise of Herbeville.--The Hungarians Crushed.--Lenity of Joseph.--Death of Joseph.--Accession of Charles VI.--His Career in Spain.--Capture of Barcelona.--The Siege.--The Rescue.--Character of Charles.--Cloisters of Montserrat.--Increased Efforts for the Spanish Crown.--Charles Crowned Emperor of Austria and Hungary.--Bohemia.--Deplorable Condition of Louis XIV.