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LETTERS FROM FLUSHINGContaining an account of the Expedition to Walcheren, Beveland, and the mouth of the Scheldt - Couverture souple

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9781845747503: LETTERS FROM FLUSHINGContaining an account of the Expedition to Walcheren, Beveland, and the mouth of the Scheldt
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ISBN 10 : 184574750X ISBN 13 : 9781845747503
Editeur : Naval & Military Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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Éditeur
Naval & Military Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
184574750X
ISBN 13 
9781845747503
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
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