ST. QUENTIN
A CITY WITH'A HISTORY. St. Quentin, an ancient town with 52,768 inhabitants, is situated on rising ground on the right bank of the Sonvmo. It carries on extensive'cotton and woollen manufactures. St. Quentin was known to'the'Romans as' Augusta Veromanduorum, and derives its modern name from the ' youthful martyr who introduced Christianity hero in tho third century. It afterwards became the capital of the Counts of Vermandois. In 1560 it formed part of the dowry of Mary; Queen of Scots, who derived a revenue from it' until her death. In 1557 the Spaniards, with their English, German, and Flemish auxiliaries, under tho Duke of Savoy, signally defeated the French under Coligny and the Constable Mont-, morency near St. Quentin.. The battle' was fought on St. Lawrenco's Day, and it was in gratitude of this victory that Philip II vowed the erection' of the/ Escurial. On January 19, 1871, the French "Armee du .Nord" under Faidherbe, was defeated near St. Quentin by the Prussians under General .Gooben. ■ f '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3047, 7 April 1917, Page 10
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168ST. QUENTIN Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3047, 7 April 1917, Page 10
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