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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 725 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KEMPEN  , a

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town in the Prussian
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Rhine
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Province, 40 M . N. of
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Cologne by the railway to Zevenaar . Pop . (I goo), 6319 . It has a
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monument to
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Thomas a Kempis, who was
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born there . The
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industries are considerable, and include
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silk-
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weaving,
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glass-making and the manufacture of
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electrical plant . Kempen belonged in the
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middle ages to the archbishopric of Cologne and received civic rights in 1294 . It is memorable as the
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scene of a victory gained, on the 17th of
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January 1642, by the
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French and Hessians over the Imperialists . See Terwelp,
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Die Stadt Kempen (Kempen, 1894), and Niessen, Heimatkunde
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des Kreises Kempen (
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Crefeld, 1895) .

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