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	Walcheren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walcheren is a former island in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands at the mouth of the Scheldt estuary.
		It lies between the Oosterschelde in the north and the Westerschelde in the south and is roughly the shape of a rhombus.
		Walcheren was the seat of the Danish Viking Harald, who conquered the present Netherlands together with his compatriate Rorik in the 9th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walcheren (532 words)

	Walcheren
		Walcheren is a (former) island in Zeeland in the Netherlands in the mouth of the Scheldt estuary.
		Originally Walcheren was an island, but through polders new land has been added to it in past centuries, leading it to be connected to Zuid-Beveland, which in turn has been connected to the mainland.
		Already in Roman days the island was the point of departure for ships going to England and it had a temple of the godess Nahalennia[?] who was popular with those who braved the waters of the North Sea.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wa/Walcheren.html (148 words)

	Legion Magazine : Taking Walcheren Island
		Today, land reclamation has made Walcheren Island part of the South Beveland peninsula, but in 1944 it was joined to the mainland by a narrow causeway just wide enough for a railway line and a road.
		Walcheren appeared to be such a formidable obstacle that Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds, the acting commander of 1st Canadian Army, proposed to "break the dikes and flood all parts of the island below high water level."
		The final decision was General Dwight D. Eisenhower's and after discussions with Churchill and the Netherlands' government-in-exile, the supreme Allied commander gave the OK. Leaflets were dropped urging the population to evacuate the island and on Oct. 3, 1944, Bomber Command blew a huge hole in the dike at Westkappele.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/01-11.asp (2199 words)

	Walcheren 1809: a medical catastrophe -- Howard 319 (7225): 1642 -- BMJ
		The progress of "Walcheren fever" or "Flushing sickness" was relentless.
		The barrels are inscribed "TK" as Thomas Keate was accused of misappropriating luxuries, and the case of "oak bark" is an allusion to the shortage of real bark on Walcheren.
		Observations of the Walcheren diseases, which affected the British soldiers in the expedition to the Scheldt, commanded by Lt Gen the earl of Chatham.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/319/7225/1642 (2029 words)

	AllRefer.com - Walcheren (Benelux Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Agriculture and cattle raising constitute the mainstays of Walcheren's economy; principal crops are wheat, vegetables, fruit, and sugar beets.
		Walcheren also has a considerable tourist trade, attracted largely by the medieval buildings in Middelburg.
		In the autumn of 1944, Canadian and British troops assaulted and secured Walcheren as part of the campaign to clear the Scheldt estuary so that the Allies could use the Belgian port of Antwerp, which had been captured earlier.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Walchere.html (258 words)

	COMBINEDOPS WALCHEREN (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Operation Infatuate, the codename for the invasion of the Dutch Island of Walcheren, was a major Combined Operation's amphibious landing against heavily fortified and entrenched German positions.
		The bombing of Walcheren in October by RAF Bomber Command had breached the dykes around the island and had turned it into a massive lagoon, rimmed by broken dykes.
		Walcheren was a landing in bleak November on the shores of the North Sea.
	www.combinedops.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Walcheren.htm (6582 words)

	Walcheren 1809: a medical catastrophe - Doctors in Conflict British Medical Journal - Find Articles
		The overall commander, Lord Chatham, was elder brother to the late Mr Pitt and was himself nicknamed "the late earl" because of his difficulty in rising from bed in the morning.
		The army disembarked on the neighbouring islands of Walcheren and South Beveland, meeting little French resistance, and reduced the siege of the city of Flushing on the south coast of Walcheren.
		In late October the 9000 troops sick on Walcheren easily outnumbered those fit for duty.[9] Hospitals were set up in houses, churches, and warehouses, and conditions were appalling.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0999/is_7225_319/ai_58614620 (602 words)

	Expedition to Walcheren
		The services of the brigade of Guards were again put into requisition, in the summer of 1809, to join in an expedition to the Island of Walcheren, and the two battalions of the First Regiment lately returned from Spain were ordered to hold themselves in immediate readiness.
		The communication by water was now entirely free for the fleet between Walcheren and South Beveland, and Sir John Hope at once urged the importance of the presence of the flotilla near the fort.
		Lieutenant-General Don, who was left in command at Walcheren for a time to prevent the enemy's fleet escaping from the river, having subsequently received orders to evacuate the island, destroyed the basin of the harbour with the naval defences on the 10th of December, and embarked for England.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /jacmartin/martinbook/expidetionwalcheren.htm (1208 words)

	Walcheren Indicator Loop Station (Royal Navy), Netherlands
		This is a small part of the story of the indicator loop station built during WW2 as part of the Royal Navy's anti-submarine harbour defences of The Schelde River, Netherlands.
		It is located between Walcheren Island and Nieuwe Sluis, 3 km west of the village of Breskens.
		With the surrender of the German garrison on Walcheren Island, early November 1944, the operations to clear the Germans from the riverbanks of the Scheldt were completed.
	home.iprimus.com.au /waldingr/walcheren.htm (524 words)

	Walcheren Engels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Soon afterwards Walcheren appeared to be in the hands of the Danish freebooters, for they pointed out to be present on the island in 841.
		Although the island was completely looted in 837, Walcheren must have stayed attractive as a jumping-off board to England and played an important part as a halting and forage-place.
		While many marauding expeditions were undertaken in the Scheldt region in the decades after the arrival of the Danes, not one raid on the coast of Zealand was reported in the same period.
	www.vandertuuk.demon.nl /Walcheren_Engels.html (4136 words)

	panoramaphoto.org: Walcheren, Zeeland, The Netherlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The former island Walcheren was an important part of the German Atlantikwall.
		The coastline from Vlissingen to Westkapelle dominated the entrance of the river Schelde which is entrance to the port of Antwerp in Belgium.
		Although the town of Antwerp and its harbour were liberated it could not be used by the allied forces because the entrance was blocked by the German defense line at Walcheren.
	panoramaphoto.org /ww2/5/walcheren-zeeland-the-netherlands (341 words)

	Streekdracht en klederdracht op Walcheren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Het aantal mensen dat op Walcheren "nog in klederdracht rondloopt" wordt steeds minder.
		Vrouwen in streekdracht behoren op Walcheren dus tot een uitstervend ras.
		Arnemuiden en Nieuw- en Sint Joosland worden apart van Walcheren genoemd omdat de streekdracht van deze plaatsen een eigen karakter heeft en niet hetzelfde is als de dracht in de overige plaatsen op Walcheren.
	www.hkwalcheren.nl /streekdracht.htm (1468 words)

	Capture of Walcheren Island - Veterans Affairs Canada
		As the fourth phase of the battle opened, only the island of Walcheren at the mouth of the West Scheldt remained in enemy hands.
		The island's defences were extremely strong and the only land approach was the long narrow causeway from South Beveland.
		The Scheldt was then laboriously cleared of mines, and on November 28, the first convoy entered the port of Antwerp, led by the Canadian-built freighter Fort Cataraqui.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /youth/sub.cfm?source=history/secondWar/belgium/Walcheren (282 words)

	Miniatuur Walcheren
		If you would like to see everything that Walcheren has to offer in just one day, you need to visit Miniature Walcheren, which you will find in Middelburg town centre.
		The whole of Walcheren has been recreated on a scale of 1 to 20.
		Miniature Walcheren has a number of unusual and original playground facilities, which make it extremely popular with children.
	www.miniatuurwalcheren.nl /index2.php?taal=1 (207 words)

	Expedition to Walcheren 1809
		The island of Walcheren, which was captured by the British in1809, was renowned for its insalubrious climate.
		The inhabitants of Walcheren were known to be 'pale and listless, suffering much from scrofula, the children rickety and all much deformed'.
		Heavy floods the previous year had made the conditions ideal for mosquitoes and by the summer of 1809 the situation was ripe for a disaster.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /jacmartin/martinbook/walcheran.htm (1230 words)

	VluchtelingenWerk Stichting Nieuwkomers en VluchtelingenWerk Walcheren
		Ook nu vestigen zich mensen uit andere delen van de wereld op Walcheren, in de hoop op een veilig bestaan, of in het kader van hun werk of het vormen van een gezin.
		De centrale doelstelling is het begeleiden van vluchtelingen en andere "nieuwkomers" van buiten de Europese Unie, wanneer zij na de procedure tot het verkrijgen van een verblijfsvergunning, woonruimte hebben gevonden in een van de plaatsen op Walcheren.
		Ook voor geheel Walcheren actief is de "Stichting VluchtelingenWerk AZC Middelburg".
	vluchtelingenwerk.nl /walcheren (1058 words)

	Basil Woolf, Battle for Walcheren Island
		Later that year he led the assault on the island of Walcheren in the Scheldt and for this he was awarded a DSO.
		LCH 185 is alongside, she was sunk at Walcheren (gs – according to HMSO "British Vessels Lost at Sea" and Lenton's "British and Empire Warships, LCH.185 was mined and sunk off Normandy, 25 June 1944).
		While the Canadians fought their way in from the causeway, a second party was attacking across the Scheldt from Breskens against the second of the little humps that were all that was left of Walcheren ever since the floods broke in.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2Memoir-Walcheren.htm (9412 words)

	The British Expeditionary Force to Walcheren: 1809
		The British hope to achieve two goals: to assist the Austrians, who had gone to war against the French and to destroy the French fleet thought to be in Flushing.
		After four and a half months on Walcheren, the last British troops were withdrawn on 9 December.
		The Left Wing and the 3rd Division landed on Walcheren Island, while the Right Wing and the Reserve landed on South Beveland Island.
	www.napoleon-series.org /military/battles/c_walcheren.html (645 words)

	V2ROCKET.COM - Lehr und Versuchsbatterie 444 (Training and Experimental Battery 444) in Walcheren and Rijs
		The rockets were brought to the area from the Beveland Causeway, through Middleburg to Ter Hooge, where they were temporarily stored on trailers under the trees before being moved to the firing sites located in a park near Serooskerke named Vrederust.
		Training and Experimental Battery 444, after spending only two days at Walcheren, was ordered to travel north to Gaasterland in southwest Friesland, where it could continue operations against England.
		The battery traveled under the cover of darkness, as it was very risky to be on the roads during daylight hours because of Allied air superiority.
	www.v2rocket.com /start/deployment/serooskerke-rijs.html (2500 words)

	VVV Zeeland > Regions > Walcheren (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And from the heart of Walcheren an island with many faces.
		In fact Walcheren is not really an island.
		For more than one hundred years it has been joined to the mainland by the Sloe dam and is therefore a peninsula.
	www.vvvzeeland.nl.cob-web.org:8888 /regios/wnb/&lng=EN (169 words)

	Walcheren 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After a bitterly fought battle in November 1944, 4 Commando Brigade which included 41, 47, and 48 Royal Marine Commandos captured Walcheren, enabling the Schelt and the Port of Antwerp to be opened, thus making a material contribution to the shortening of the war in North West Europe.
		In the initial stages of the assault, support Landing Craft, with their armament manned by Royal Marines took on an unequal fight with the powerful German defences at point blank range.
		The battle of Walcheren now ranks high among the achievements of the Corps.
	www.royalmarines.org /walcheren.htm (165 words)

	VVV Zeeland > Regio's > Walcheren
		Het is één van de verklaringen voor de herkomst van de naam Walcheren.
		Tussen de hoge duinen in het Westen en de nieuwlandpolders rond het Sloegebied in het Oosten ligt een eeuwenoud landschap.
		Op Walcheren voel je zo nu en dan nog dat typische eilandgevoel.
	www.vvvzeeland.nl /regios/wnb (110 words)

	Walcheren (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Starting on July 30, 1809 a British armed force of 39,000 men landed on Walcheren, the Walcheren Expedition, with a view to assisting the Austrians in their war against Napoleon, and attacking the French fleet moored at Flushing.
		On November 1, 1944 the British landed for a second time at Walcheren in an attempt to open up the Scheldt, which was the key to Antwerp.
		The amphibious assault (codenamed "Infatuate") proved a success and by November 8 all German resistance at the island had been overrun.
	walcheren.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (374 words)

	TIME.com: Wij Zijn Bevrijd -- Jan. 15, 1945 -- Page 1
		The sturdy Dutch inhabitants of Walcheren Island did not want to leave their flooded homes.
		The grey sea had snaked through Walcheren's bomb-breached dikes, coiled around hamlets and towns, drowned their handsome fl-and-white Friesian Holland cattle.
		The salt water which covered much of Walcheren (82 square miles) had undone the labor of generations.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,775394,00.html (694 words)

	Miniature Walcheren \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Zeeland \| Frommers.com
		You can play giant at this miniature version of Walcheren Island, where model villages and farms give a different perspective on the area.
		This marvelous one-twentieth-scale model is a faithful replication of more than 200 buildings, moving trains and ships, and windmills.
		A delight for both young and old, it's a good place to visit before exploring Walcheren, where you see the real structures on which these models are based.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/zeeland/A31759.html (181 words)

	Walcheren Campaign, 1809
		The British Expeditionary Force to Walcheren: 1809, by Robert Burnham (Napoleon Series)
		TOC: Expedition to Lorient, 1745.--First expedition to St. Malo, 1758.--Second expedition to St. Malo, 1758.--Siege and capture of Belleisle, 1761.--Expedition to Quiberon, 1795.--Expedition to Ostend, 1798.--Combined British and Russian expedition to the Helder, 1799.--Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807.--Expedition to Walcheren, 1809.--Expedition to Bergen-op-Zoom, 1813-14.
		The Walcheren Expedition, by Rifleman Harris (Hillsdale College Documents in Military History)
	www.regiments.org /wars/19fr-nap/809fland.htm (230 words)

	"Meer de Walcheren, Xristine Anne Marie van der, Sr., O.S.B." Correspondence: Thomas Merton Center
		Thomas Merton's Correspondence with: Meer de Walcheren, Xristine Anne Marie van der, Sr., O.S.B. Sr.
		Xristine Anne Marie van der Meer de Walcheren, Xristine Anne Marie van der Meer de
		Xristine Anne Marie van der Meer de Walcheren was a Benedictine religious sister writing from Notre Dame Abbey in Oosterhout, the Netherlands.
	www.merton.org /Research/Correspondence/z.asp?id=2094 (437 words)

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