Walcheren

[ wahl-khuh-ruhn, -ruh, wahl-guh- ]

noun

1. an island in SW Netherlands: part of Zeeland province. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).

Walcheren

/ ˈwɑlxərə /

noun

1. an island in the SW Netherlands, in the Scheldt estuary: administratively part of Zeeland province; suffered severely in World War II, when the dykes were breached, and again in the floods of 1953. Area: 212 sq km (82 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Men who remembered Walcheren sought in vain for a parallel to the wretchedness and mortality in our army.

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It is the same disease, he says, whether from the swamps of Walcheren, or the pestilential shores of Africa.

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This gave the seamen possession of the whole island of Walcheren save the fortified town of Middleburg.

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A cabinet crisis was the result of the outcome of the unfortunate Walcheren expedition of 1809.

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He was made a baronet in 1812 in reward for the services he rendered in connexion with the return of the Walcheren expedition.

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