Walcheren

How to use Walcheren in a sentence

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

  The British Expedition to the Crimea | William Howard Russell

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

  Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease | John Grove

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

  A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) | Thomas M. Lindsay

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

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 | Various

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

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 | Various