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Sluis IV (Haghorst)

 
Moergestelseweg 2, 5089 NV Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands
 
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The nearest place in the direction of Brug Kanaalweg-West is Sluis III (Het Wandelbos); 0.02 kilometres away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Kanaal Zuid-Willemsvaart (Old Line) - Kanaal Zuid-Willemsvaart (Main Line) - Wilhelminakanaal Verbinding is Sluis V (Achterbosch); 0.03 kilometres away.

There may be access to the towpath here.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a bridge here which takes a road over the canal.

This is a lock with a rise of 2.45m.

 
 
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The official inland waterway resource for Belgium with actual traffic and planned operations on the waterways. Also has voyage planning and notices to mariners
 
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[Sluis 0] of this different purpose, Sluis 0 was not numbered as one of the locks of the Zuid-Willemsvaart. It was possible for Sluis 0 to lift ships, even though [Battle of Margate] an army of thirty thousand men and a fleet of twelve hundred vessels at Sluis (Sluys) in the previous autumn. Philip the Bold, who was the driving force [Hundred Years' War] next day. The French fleet assumed a defensive formation off the port of Sluis. The English fleet deceived the French into believing they were withdrawing [Franco-Flemish War] of Namur. At the end of April William surrendered Damme, Aardenburg and Sluis. Ghent surrendered to the French on 8 May, Oudenaarde on 11 May, and Ypres [Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy] marriage was contracted in the year of her birth, on 11 November 1386 in Sluis, Zeeland; they married by proxy 30 October 1393 in Chalon-sur-Saône and [Pyrrhic victory] expanded their territory further east – including capturing the port of Sluis to replace Ostend before surrendering. The vast cost and casualties of the [Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma] the general campaign preparations, Farnese moved against Ostend and Sluis. Sluis was taken in August 1587. The plan was that Parma's troops would cross [Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Los Balbases] continue the Siege of Ostend on 29 September 1603. Despite failing to relieve Sluis under siege at the same time, the ruins of Ostend fell into his hands on [Koopvaarders Lock] "Belangrijk Sluis in Den Helder volledig gestremd". Trouw. 1 November 1977. "Latere Bouw Sluis verrast Den Helder". Het Parool. 2 March 1979. "Sluis moet vernieuwd [Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)] and Rowland York which further damaged Leicester's reputation. Finally Sluis with a largely English garrison was besieged and taken by the Duke of Parma
 
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