- Bouches-du-Rhin
Bouches-du-Rhin ( _nl. Monden van de Rijn) is the name of a département of the
First French Empire in the presentNetherlands . It is named after the mouth of the riverRhine . It was formed in1810 , when theKingdom of Holland was annexed by France. Its territory corresponds with the eastern half of the present Dutch provinceNorth Brabant and a part ofGelderland . Its capital was's-Hertogenbosch . The département was subdivided into the followingarrondissement s and cantons:*
's-Hertogenbosch , cantons:'s-Hertogenbosch ,Boxtel ,Heusden ,Oisterwijk ,Oss ,Tilburg ,Waalwijk andZaltbommel .
*Eindhoven , cantons:Asten ,Eindhoven , Gemert,Helmond ,Hilvarenbeek ,Oirschot andSint-Oedenrode .
*Nijmegen , cantons:Boxmeer ,Druten , Grave,Nijmegen , Ravenstein andWijchen .After Napoleon was defeated in
1814 , the département became part of theUnited Kingdom of the Netherlands .
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