1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Bouchain (French pronunciation:[buʃɛ̃]ⓘ; West Flemish: Boesem) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[3]
It lies halfway between Cambrai and Valenciennes. Bouchain, seat of the early medieval County of Ostrevent, was taken by Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, in the 10th century and eventually subsumed into the County of Hainaut.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, when the town was fortified, Bouchain was besieged twice. On 12 September 1711 it was seized from the French after a 34 day siege by the Grand Alliance led by the Duke of Marlborough. It was again besieged, and recaptured by French forces, on 19 October 1712 after an 18 day siege.[4]
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^"Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^INSEE commune file
^D. G. Chandler. Marlborough as Military Commander (1989 ed.). p. 299. Spellmount Publishers Ltd. 1973. ISBN 978-0946771127.
Bouchain (French pronunciation: [buʃɛ̃] ; West Flemish: Boesem) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It lies halfway between Cambrai...
success by leading his army through the lines Ne Plus Ultra and capturing Bouchain, a key fortress in northern France. Marlborough had fallen out of favour...
commitment to the war to prevent a credit crisis. Despite the capture of Bouchain in September, a decisive victory in northern France continued to elude...
(137 km/h) winds. On November 20, 1979, a cooling tower of Bouchain Power Station near Bouchain, France collapsed [1]. A cooling tower of Turow Power Plant...
station on the Ipswich–Lowestoft East Suffolk Line. It is twinned with Bouchain in France and Eitorf in Germany. Nearby villages include Cratfield, Wissett...
regiment on foot at the repartition of Zeeland. In 1712 he became governor of Bouchain, in 1718 of Bergen-op-Zoom. He was an outstanding cavalry commander who...
Marchiennes, before reversing their earlier losses at Douai, Le Quesnoy and Bouchain. In one summer the whole forward Allied position laboriously built up over...
Austria was as unwelcome to Britain as one with France. While the capture of Bouchain in September 1711 left the road to Paris open, the British bypassed their...
efficiency. On April 28, 2016, the plant run by Électricité de France in Bouchain was certified by Guinness World Records as the worlds most efficient combined...
mountain passes, but several lesser cols. The first was the col du Pin-Bouchain (759 m (2,490 ft)), on the opening stage from Paris to Lyon, on what is...
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