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Jemappes

(French ʒəmap)
n
(Placename) a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province west of Mons: scene of a battle (1792) during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which the French defeated the Austrians
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Je•mappes

(ʒəˈmæp)

n.
a town in SW Belgium. 12,455.
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