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KEMPEN , a town in the Prussian Rhine Province, 40 M. N. of Cologne by the railway to Zevenaar. Pop. (I goo), 6319. It has a monument
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electrical plant. Kempen belonged in the middle ages to the archbishopric of Cologne and received civic rights in 1294. It is memorable as the scene of a victory gained, on the 17th of January 1642, by the French and Hessians over the Imperialists.See Terwelp, Die Stadt Kempen (Kempen, 1894), and Niessen, Heimatkunde des Kreises Kempen ( Crefeld
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