Nieuwpoort, Belgium

[4] The city was occupied by French forces for six years between 1757 and 1763, as part of the conditions of the Second Treaty of Versailles between France and Austria.A large waterworks infrastructure project called the Ganzepoot (goose foot, in Dutch) was constructed in Nieuwpoort in the 19th century to drain the polders and channel water in and around the town and to the North Sea.Both parts form one contiguous built up area, connected by buildings along the Albert I Laan street and the fishing port.Besides Nieuwpoort proper, two small villages in the Flemish polders are part of the municipality, Sint-Joris and Ramskapelle.Part of the plot in Cecelia Holland's historical novel The Sea Beggars is laid in Nieuwpoort, in the preliminary states of the Eighty Years' War - with the sailor protagonists feeling oppressed under the harsh Spanish rule and eventually joining the rebellious Watergeuzen.
Nieuwpoort on the Ferraris map (around 1775)
Destruction caused to the city of Nieuport in November 1917
Damage in 1919
Nieuwpoort, towns and neighbouring towns. The yellow areas are urban areas.
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