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

by An Officer of the Eighty-First Regiment

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 184574750X

ISBN-13 9781845747503

Publisher Naval & Military Press

Imprint Naval & Military Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 15th, 2015

Print length 300 Pages

Weight 376 grams

Dimensions 21.80 x 13.90 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Military history

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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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