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HARFLEUR

Volume 5 · 75 words · 1810 Edition

an ancient town of France, in the department of the Lower Seine; but is now a poor place, on account of its fortifications being demolished, and its harbour choked up. It was taken by the English, by assault, in the year 1415. It is seated on the river Lizonne, near the Seine, five miles from Havre de Grace, forty north-west of Rouen, and 106 north-west of Paris. E. Long. o. 17. N. Lat. 49. 30.