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MAUBEUGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 903 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAUBEUGE , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Nord, situated on both See also:banks of the Sambre, here canalized, 234 M. by See also:rail E. by S. of See also:Valenciennes, and about 2 M. from the Belgian frontier. Pop. (1906), town 13,569, See also:commune 21,520. As a fortress Maubeuge has an old See also:enceinte of See also:bastion trace which serves as the centre of an important entrenched See also:camp of 18 m. perimeter, constructed for the most See also:part after the See also:war of 187o, but since modernized and augmented. The town has a See also:board of See also:trade See also:arbitration, a communal See also:college, a commercial and See also:industrial school; and there are important foundries, forges and blast-furnaces, together with manufactures of See also:machine-tools, See also:porcelain, &c. It is See also:united by electric See also:tramway with Hautmont (pop. 12,473), also an important metallurgical centre. Maubeuge (Malbodium) owes its origin to a See also:double monastery, for men and See also:women, founded in the 7th See also:century by St Aldegonde See also:relics of whom are preserved in the See also:church. It subsequently belonged to the territory of Hainault. It was burnt by See also:Louis XI., by See also:Francis I., and by See also:Henry II., and was finally assigned to France by the Treaty of See also:Nijmwegen. It was fortified at See also:Vauban by the command of Louis XIV., who under See also:Turenne first saw military service there. Besieged in 1793 by See also:Prince Josias of See also:Coburg, it was relieved by the victory of See also:Wattignies, which is commemorated by a See also:monument in the town.

It was unsuccessfully besieged in 1814, but was compelled to capitulate, after a vigorous resistance, in the See also:

Hundred Days.

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