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Mairieux (French pronunciation: [mɛʁjø]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Élesmes is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Villers-Sire-Nicole is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Assevent (French pronunciation: [asvɑ̃]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Bettignies (French pronunciation: [betiɲi]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Solre is a river in France that runs in the Département Nord in the region Hauts-de-France. It originates from the confluence of two source streams at Solre-le-Château, in the Avesnois Regional Nature Park. The river generally drains to the northwest and empties at 22.4 kilometers east of Maubeuge, in the municipality of Rousies, as a right tributary to the channeled Sambre.

Vieux-Reng (French pronunciation: [vjø ʁɑ̃]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.Its neighbouring village across the border with Belgium is called Grand-Reng.

Boussois (French pronunciation: [buswa]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Rousies (French pronunciation: [ʁuzi]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is located south of Maubeuge, on the river Solre.

Maubeuge Abbey (French: Abbaye de Maubeuge; Latin: Malbodiense monasterium) was a women's monastery in Maubeuge, in the County of Hainaut, now northern France, close to the modern border with Belgium. It is best known today as the abbey founded by St. Aldegonde, still a popular figure of devotion in the region. It is thought to have possibly been where the young Jan Gossaert, a Renaissance-era painter known as Jan Mabuse, was educated, claimed by some to have been a native of the town of Maubeuge, which grew up around the abbey.

Recquignies (French pronunciation: [ʁɛkiɲi]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

The siege of Maubeuge (30 September – 16 October 1793) was a siege of the city of Maubeuge by an Austro-Dutch force of 60,000 men: 58  under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld during the War of the First Coalition. Maubeuge was defended by a 24,000-strong garrison under the French Republican generals Desjardin and Mayer.: 66  The Prince was aiming to clear his march on Paris, but he had to raise the siege after the Republican victory at the battle of Wattignies and the prospect of the armée de la Moselle coming to raise the siege. The French representative on mission, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, was captured by the Austrians during the siege, and only returned to France in December 1795 through a prisoner exchange.