Mons

(Flemish, Berghen ). A strongly-fortified town of Belgium, in the province of Hainault, on the Trouille, 33 miles southwest from Bru els. It has been frequently besieged and taken; in 1709 it was taken by the allies under Marl borough and Eugène; in 1746 by Marshal Saxe; and in the wars of the French revolution in 1792-94 it was taken alternately by the French and the allies, the former of whom held the town from 1784 to 1814.