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2 unusual facts about Barrier town


Barrier town

The barrier towns were present-day Belgian towns, heavily fortified by the Dutch, on the Austrian Netherlands's border with France, and as such were particularly important in the wars between the Dutch Republic and Ancien Régime France.

In the War of the Austrian Succession, France conquered these towns, but at the end of the war was forced to return them to the Netherlands by the 1748 Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle and the resulting Treaty.



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