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Philip II Augustus destroyed the dam made of stakes across the river Seine, at well as Richard's fortified residence on an island which controlled the bridge, seized the village originally built to accommodate the builder and then besieged the fortress in September 1203. His army moved into attack in February 1214 and successively invaded the advanced fortification, the outer ward and finally the inner ward in which the besieged Anglo-Normans surrendered on March 6.