Mulhausen : German spelling of Mulhouse, an industrial town of NE France on the plain of Alsace between the Vosges & the Jura Mountains. It passed to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War (1871). On 8 August 1914 the French occupied it without resistance. On the ninth the Germans gave battle, drove the French & reoccupied on the tenth. In 1918, after Germany was defeated in the War it came back to France.
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