Walcheren 1809

Napoleonic War scholar Martin R. Howard presents a revelatory history about a little known British military campaign in Walcheren 1809 . In July 1809, with the Dutch coast a pistol held at the head of England, the largest British expeditionary force ever assembled, over 40,000 men and around 600 ships, weighed anchor off the Kent coast and sailed for the island of Walcheren in the Scheldt estuary. After an initial success, the expedition stalled and as the lethargic military commander, John Pitt