BoisleDuc

(bwawla-dook,) a fortified city of the Netherlands, cap. ofN. Brabant, at the junction of the Dommel and the Aa, 3 m. S. of the Maas, and 28 S.S.E. of Utrecht. It was taken by the French in 1794, and by the Pru ians in 1814. Pop. 25,850. [s. 101]