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It is located on the western bank of the river Meuse, in the south of the city, and borders Belgium (both Flanders and Wallonia).
According to the vita of Harlindis and Relindis (written around 860), these two sisters in 720 founded a monastery along the river Meuse, on territory belonging to their father Adelard.
They were still in use when the Battle of Belgium started in May 1940, albeit from fixed, ambushed positions on the west-bank of the river Meuse (Maas) between Vivegnis and Lixhe.
The Fort de Liouville, also known as Fort Stengel, located between the communes of Saint-Agnant-sous-les-Côtes and Saint-Julien-sous-les-Côtes, near the town of Commercy in the Meuse departement of France, is one of the forts built at the end of the 19th century to defend the valley of the Meuse.
He took part in the 1795-1796 campaign with the armies of the Sambre and Meuse, fighting on the Rhine and the Lahn and distinguishing himself alongside Kléber near Neuwied and Sulzbach.
The bridge across the river Meuse makes Heusden, then still occupied by the Germans, a strategic object.
The settlement of Heusden, bordering on the river Meuse (Maas), as we know it today dates back to the 13th century, and started with the construction of a fortification to replace the castle that was destroyed by the Duke of Brabant in 1202.
This noble house appeared with Count Bruno in 1081, then holding a county in what is now the Netherlands on the Meuse’s left bank between Roermond and Venlo.