Senefle

Senefle, or SENEF, a town in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, 27 miles by rail S. by W. of Brussels, with a pop. of 3438, is the centre of a district in which manufactures of pottery and glass are extensively carried on, but is chiefly notable as the battlefield on which William of Orange (III. of England) was defeated after a bloody contest by the Great Condé, 11th August 1674. Here, too, on 2d July 1794 the French general Marceau defeated the Austrians.