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LANDEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 154 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LANDEN  , a

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town in the province of Liege, Belgium, an important junction for lines of railway from Limburg, Liege and Louvain . Pop . (1904) 2874 . It is the birthplace of the first Pippin, distinguished as Pippin of Landen from his grandson Pippin of Herstal . In 1693 the French under Marshal Luxemburg defeated here the Anglo-Dutch army under William III . This
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battle is also called
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Neerwinden from a
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village 3 M . W. of Landen . Here in 1793 the Austrians under Frederick of Saxe-
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Coburg and Clerfayt defeated the French under Dumouriez .

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