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Wesel

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Wesel

City in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Lippe, 38 km/24 mi north of Duisburg; population (1994) 462,600. It has glass, electronic, precision-engineering, and food-processing industries. Wesel was almost totally destroyed by bombing during World War II. The Gothic cathedral of St Willibrord dates from the 15th century.



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And yet, if these negotiations had been successful, they would have prevented the defeats of Rees, Orsay, Wesel, and Rheinberg; the Rhine would not have been crossed, and Holland might still consider herself invincible in the midst of her marshes and canals.
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