Bergues, a town and fortress in the French department of Nord, on the Colme, 5 miles SSE. of Dunkirk. Four detached forts, two of which command the road to Dunkirk, guard the town, which was fruitlessly besieged by the English in 1793. Pop. 5435.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 91
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