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KESSEL

Volume 11 · 96 words · 1823 Edition

a town of Upper Guelderland, in the Netherlands, with a handsome castle. It is the chief town in the territory of the same name, and seated on the river Meuse, between Ruremond and Venlo, it being about five miles from each. It was ceded to the king of Prussia by the treaty of Utrecht. E. Long. 6. 13. N. Lat. 41. 22.

KESELDORF, a village of Germany, in the circle of Upper Saxony, three miles below Dresden, remarkable for the battle gained by the king of Prussia over the Saxons, on the 15th of December 1745.