The Canal de Bergues is an 8 km long canal connecting Bergues and the ports at Dunkerque, in the Nord department, in northern France.
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The canal was in use in the 9th century and rebuilt in the 18th is now a deadend at Bergues.
The Canal de la Basse Colme is a canal in northern France from Bergues to Hondschoote on the Belgian border.
On 29 May, 9th Foresters were sent to reinforce the garrison at the fortified town of Bergues, 9 km south of Dunkirk.
He took command of the French Regiment of Albany in 1747, and died in Bergues on 26th October 1748.
Drogo, a monk at the former St. Winnoc abbey in Bergues, wrote Godelina's biography, the Vita Godeliph, about ten years after her death.
Arriving at his post in April, O'Moran toured the strongholds placed under him (Cassel, Bergues, Dunkirk and Bailleul) to put them into a state of readiness and defence.
The principal altar-piece in the parochial church of St. Martin, at Bergues St. Vinox, near Dunkirk, is by this master: it represents 'Herodias bringing the Head of St. John to Herod.'
Maurice Jules Gaston Corneille Caullery (5 September 1868, Bergues - 13 July 1958), Paris) was a French biologist.
He was originally buried at Wormhout, but his relics were translated to Bergues-Saint-Winnoc in 899.
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