The Walcheren Expedition Of 1809

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Walcheren 1809

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Author : Martin R. Howard
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2012-10-24

Walcheren 1809 written by Martin R. Howard and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-24 with History categories.

In July 1809, with the Dutch coast a pistol held at the head of England, the largest British expeditionary force ever assembled, over 40,000 men and around 600 ships, weighed anchor off the Kent coast and sailed for the island of Walcheren in the Scheldt estuary. After an initial success, the expedition stalled and as the lethargic military commander, Lord Chatham, was at loggerheads with the opinionated senior naval commander, Sir Richard Strachan, troops were dying of a mysterious disease termed Walcheren fever. Almost all the campaigns 4,000 dead were victims of disease. The Scheldt was evacuated and the return home was followed by a scandalous Parliamentary Inquiry. Walcheren fever cast an even longer shadow. Six months later 11,000 men were still registered sick. In 1812, Wellington complained that the constitution of his troops was much shaken with Walcheren.

The Walcheren Expedition Of 1809

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Author : Reginald Cecil GWILLIAM
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

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The Walcheren Expedition Of 1809

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Author : Carl Andrew Christie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

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The Walcheren Expedition Of 1809 And Its Results

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Author : Valerie Patricia Fournier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969

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The Walcheren Expedition

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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-03-01

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A little covered Napoleonic campaign The Walcheren Expedition often appears in military memoirs of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, though rarely in much detail. The impression that the reader gains is that it was a campaign of appalling conditions producing crippling and debilitating illness that swept away many and left survivors so broken in health that they were unfit for immediate military service and indeed were frequently invalided for life. Here then is a rare account in the form of letters by a serving British infantry line officer of that campaign. This was a war of stalemate where British and French soldiers struggled with each other and the putrid miasmas that rose from the stagnant swamps of this worst of battlegrounds. For students of the Napoleonic Wars this book will provide important insight into a disastrous sideshow.

A Journal Of The Walcheren Expedition 1809

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Author : D. Yarrow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??

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The Grand Expedition

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Author : Gordon C. Bond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979

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Walcheren Expedition was the largest amphibious assault in the Napoleonic Wars.

The Expedition To Walcheren 1809

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Author : Sir Henry Light
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

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Letters From Flushingcontaining An Account Of The Expedition To Walcheren Beveland And The Mouth Of The Scheldt

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Author : An Officer of the Eighty-First Regiment
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-15

Letters From Flushingcontaining An Account Of The Expedition To Walcheren Beveland And The Mouth Of The Scheldt written by An Officer of the Eighty-First Regiment and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-15 with categories.

The Walcheren Expedition of 1809 was arguably the single worst disaster to befall Britain during the entire French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Conceived by Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh as a way of supporting Britain's embattled European allies against Napoleon, the expedition saw an army of 40,000 land on the inhospitable and marshy Dutch terrain around Flushing. There was fighting with the French, but the worst casualties were inflicted by disease. Dysentery and other infectious illnesses arising from the unhealthy swampland killed thousands and incapacitated many more, causing the abandonment of the inglorious expedition in circumstances resembling Gallipoli or Dunkirk more than a century later. This is an invaluable eyewitness account of the disaster.

British Minor Expeditions

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Author : Great Britain. Quartermaster-General's Department. Intelligence Branch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

British Minor Expeditions written by Great Britain. Quartermaster-General's Department. Intelligence Branch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Great Britain categories.