. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. 1741, when it was captured by FrederickII. of Prussia. In 1757 it was retaken by the Austrians underCharles of Lorraine, but in the. same year the Prussians againmade good their claim by force of arms, and took no fewer than21,000 men prisoners. Th« attempt of Laudon in 1760 to surprisethe city was a failure. It was forced, however, after a lengthenedsiege to yield to the French in 1806-7. Their subsecjuent invest-ment of it in 1813 was interrupted by the peace. EREST, a strongly fortified seaport town o
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. 1741, when it was captured by FrederickII. of Prussia. In 1757 it was retaken by the Austrians underCharles of Lorraine, but in the. same year the Prussians againmade good their claim by force of arms, and took no fewer than21,000 men prisoners. Th« attempt of Laudon in 1760 to surprisethe city was a failure. It was forced, however, after a lengthenedsiege to yield to the French in 1806-7. Their subsecjuent invest-ment of it in 1813 was interrupted by the peace. EREST, a strongly fortified seaport town of France,capital of an arrondissement in the department ofFinistere, in 48° 22 N. lat. and 4° 32 W. long. It issituated to the north of a magnificent land-locked bay, andoccupies the slopes of two hills divided by the KiverPenfeld,—the part of the town on the left bank beingregarded as Brest proper, while the part on the right isknown as Kecouvrance, from the chapel of the Virgin, towhom tliR shipwrecked sailors used to address their prayers ENCLISH MILES ?DUNOtNCS >NrATnDM9. Boadstead of Brest,for the recovery of their property. The hill-sides are insome places so steep that the ascent from thelower to theupper town has to be effected by flights of stairs; and thesecond or third story of one house is often on a level withthe ground story of the next. The town proper has threelong parallel streets, of which the chief bears the nameof Rue de Siam, in honour of the Siamese embassy sent toLouis XIV., and terminates at the remarkable swing-bridge, or Pont Imperial, constructed in 1861, whichcrosses the mouth of the Penfeld. Eunning along theshore to the south of the town is the Cours dAjot, one ot,the finest promenades of its kind in France, named after the!engineer who constructed it. It is planted witTi trees and 260 B R E —B R E adorned with twonmrble stataes presented by the Qouveme-ment Consulaire, Le XIIII*. Germinal, An IX. Brestpossesses comparatively few building
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