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Extract from the Cassel Travel Guides:
Twenty-three kilometres east of St-Omer is the tiny hilltop town of
CASSEL
. Hills are rare in Flanders, and consequently Cassel was much fought over from Roman times onwards. Marshal Foch spent "some of the most distressing hours" of his life here during World War I, and it was up to the top of Cassel's hill that the "Grand Old Duke of York" marched his 10,000 men in 1793, though, as hinted in the nursery rhyme, he failed to take the town.
Cassel's train station, 3km west of town, is linked only to Dunkerque, so you really need your own transport to make the trip worthwhile. Once there, however,...
read the whole Cassel Travel Guides...
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