17-1003: Baudin may refer to: People [ edit ] Auguste Baudin (1800–1877), French admiral and colonial governor Charles Baudin (1792–1854), French admiral Fernand Baudin (1918–2005), Belgian graphic designer Eugène Baudin (1853–1918), French ceramist and politician François-André Baudin (1774–1842), French admiral Jacques Baudin (born 1939), Senegalese politician Jean-Baptiste Baudin (1811–1851), French physician, Assembly deputy, and martyr Nicolas Baudin (1754–1803), French explorer Baudin expedition to Australia , 1800–1803 Robert Baudin (1918–1983), American counterfeiter Geography [ edit ] Antarctica [ edit ] Baudin Peaks , Graham Land, Antarctica Australia [ edit ] South Australia [ edit ] Baudin Beach, South Australia ,
34-804: A locality Baudin Conservation Park , a protected area Baudin Rocks , an island Baudin Rocks Conservation Park , a protected area Electoral district of Baudin , South Australia, in existence from 1977 to 1993 Nicolas Baudin Island , an island Nicolas Baudin Island Conservation Park , a protected area Hundred of Baudin , a proposed cadastral division on Kangaroo Island Western Australia [ edit ] Baudin, Western Australia ,
51-449: A locality Baudin Island (Kimberley coast) , off Western Australia Baudin Island (Shark Bay) , off Western Australia Ships [ edit ] Amiral Baudin -class ironclad French ironclad Amiral Baudin , in service 1883–1910 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Baudin . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
68-729: A population of over 20,000, and lies in Flanders at the northern border of Belgium within an enclave surrounded on three sides by the Netherlands . Today, about 15% percent of the population consists of Dutch people. The town is named after the hoge straat or "high road" – a military highway that linked the old towns of Antwerp and 's-Hertogenbosch . In the town's early days, little trade existed. Villages and towns produced just enough for their own support, with little or no surplus to be 'sold' to other areas. Thus, most travelers along this high road were soldiers and armies. Today Hoogstraten
85-475: Is internationally known for its strawberries. Veiling Hoogstraten (auction) is one of the largest of the Benelux. Every year more than 30,000 tonnes of strawberries are traded there. However its main agricultural crop is the tomato. Originally Hoogstraten probably existed as a small group of thatched cottages, with perhaps one which served as an inn. Passing travellers would pay for a meal of bread and stew and
102-510: The 'Land van Hoogstraten' became a county, a title bestowed by Margaretha of Austria . The 'county' encompassed the whole the Count's land in which several villages existed. It is now marked by the boundaries of his property, one of three bulges of northern Belgium each of which are almost surrounded by The Netherlands. Between 1 September 1602 – 18 May 1604 the Mutiny of Hoogstraten took place -
119-531: The French colonies, becoming governor of Senegal and commander of France's West Africa Coast (Côtes occidentales d'Afrique) naval station from 1847 to 1850 (in which role he proclaimed to Senegal the abolition of slavery decreed on 27 April 1848 by the Second French Republic ), then governor and commander in chief of the naval division of French Guiana from 1855 to 1859, and finally commander of
136-460: The growth of a town. A watermill ('het Laermolen') was built outside town on the River Mark. It was already an old mill when it was first mentioned in 1391. In 1380 a Beguinage was established to house good but poor old women. A very large brick church was built in 1524, and a matching town hall next door was built in 1530 before the church was completed in 1546. By 1564, a drawing shows
153-776: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baudin&oldid=985537555 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Auguste Baudin Auguste Laurent François Baudin ( French pronunciation: [oɡyst lɔʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa bodɛ̃] ; 21 November 1800, Hoogstraten France (now in Belgium) - 1 August 1877, Douai )
170-681: The longest mutiny by soldiers of the Spanish Army of Flanders during the Eighty Years' War . While Hoogstraten lies within modern Belgian Flanders, prior to 1794 the town was in the Duchy of Brabant since old Flanders reached no further North West than Antwerp . Hoogstraten remained in the hands of the Lalaing-Culemborg family until 1709 after which the town was transferred to their heir Salm-Salm family. In 1740 Hoogstraten
187-643: The navy in Algeria from 1860 to 1862. He was made a grand officer of the Légion d'honneur on 19 September 1860. Hoogstraten Hoogstraten ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦoːxstraːtə(n)] ) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp . The municipality comprises Hoogstraten, Meer , Meerle , Meersel-Dreef , Minderhout and Wortel (Meersel-Dreef includes the northernmost point in Belgium). Hoogstraten (originally Hoogstraeten ) has
SECTION 10
#1732765414794204-465: The opportunity to lie on a straw pallet in an upper room for the night while their horse was tended in a stable attached to the cottage. Apart from the innkeeper who probably also sold beer, most of the men in Hoogstraten laboured for the principal landowner while their wives tended to the family. There was no natural lake or hill around which the cottages might have been grouped so the town's focus
221-406: The past, with a mixture of dependent municipalities: the villages of Meer, Meerle, Meersel-Dreef, Minderhout and Wortel, which clustered around its edges, none of these villages was more than 15 kilometers from each other. Since 1985 Hoogstraten has once more been entitled to call itself a 'stad' – a town. Klein - Seminarie (Hoogstraten) The HOOGSTRAETEN post-office opened on 1 February 1845. It used
238-483: The town still consisted of houses on both sides of the wide unpaved Vrijheid. The number of houses had grown to more than a hundred fine upstanding wooden buildings some three stories high. The church, St. Catherine's Church, formed the centre of the town. Behind the church on a slight hill a bit more than a kilometer away stood the castle of the Count. Under the ownership of Count Antoon de Lalaing (1480–1540) and his wife, Countess Elisabeth van Culemborg (1475–1555),
255-412: Was a French admiral and colonial administrator. His uncle François-André Baudin was also a naval officer. Volunteering for the navy in 1817, he was promoted to élève de la marine in 1819, enseigne de vaisseau in 1822, lieutenant de vaisseau in 1829, capitaine de corvette in 1841, capitaine de vaisseau in 1846 and finally contre-amiral in 1855. He spent most of his career as a naval officer in
272-399: Was elevated to a Duchy by Emperor Charles VI , but barely half a century later, during French rule, it lost its titles of 'town' and 'duchy.' The status of a town often depended on whether the townspeople were considered supporters or not, so one might infer that the area was seen to have anti-French feeling. Over two hundred years later, in 1977, Hoogstraten was combined, as it had been in
289-488: Was the main street, the "Vrijheid". There was a small river, the Mark, but given the tendency for rivers to overflow in this flat land, townspeople were wise to avoid building too close to it. The town was chartered in 1210, when it was granted the title of 'free town'. This effectively gave it a charter with certain privileges: perhaps exemption from some taxes or exemption from ecclesiastical territorial sovereignty. Both helped
#793206