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Minden

Industrial town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the River Weser where the Mittelland Canal crosses the river by aqueduct, 185 km/115 mi northeast of Düsseldorf; population (1995) 82,300. There are tobacco, machinery, glass, ceramics, furniture, and food processing industries. It was a member of the Hanseatic League. The French were defeated here in 1759 by an allied army from Britain, Hannover, and Brunswick, commanded by the duke of Brunswick (Minden, Battle of). There is an 11th- to 13th-century cathedral which was rebuilt after World War II.

Minden

City and seat of Webster Parish, northwestern Louisiana, 45 km/28 mi east-northeast of Shreveport; population (1990) 13,700. The area was settled by Germans in the 1830s. It is now a processing and distribution centre for an agricultural region, and also has oil and natural gas fields in the vicinity.
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Peering over the railings and through the black trees into the garden of the Square, you see a few miserable governesses with wan- faced pupils wandering round and round it, and round the dreary grass-plot in the centre of which rises the statue of Lord Gaunt, who fought at Minden, in a three-tailed wig, and otherwise habited like a Roman Emperor.
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