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Bayonne
Bayonne is a city in the French Basque Country, where the Nive joins the Adour near the Atlantic. Under English rule from 1152 to 1451 it was a busy port of Gascony, and its fortifications were later rebuilt by Vauban. In 1808 Napoleon forced the Spanish kings Charles IV and Ferdinand VII to abdicate there, and the town is said to have given its name to the bayonet.
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