Around 40,000 soldiers, 15,000 horses together with field artillery and two siege trains crossed the North Sea and landed at Walcheren on 30 July.

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By 2nd Captain Henry Light Royal Horse Artillery. As a first move, the British seized the swampy island of Walcheren at the mouth of River Scheldt as well as South Beveland island. The Diary of Ensign William Gavin 71st Foot 1806-15. By Lieutenant George Bourne 85th Foot 1804-18. The British troops soon began to suffer from a form of malaria; within a month of seizing the island, they had over 8,000 fever cases.

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Almost all the campaign’s 4,000 dead were victims of disease.

Around 40,000 soldiers, 15,000 horses together with field artillery and two siege trains crossed the North Sea and landed at Walcheren on 30 July.

Walcheren 1809 covers a huge gap in a little known campaign that had a major impact on the Peninsular War. Because of its long-term implications for operations by the British in the Peninsular, it should be in every Napoleonic library, not just those specializing in the British Army. This book is a good and easy read on a much under-reported - in Britain anyway! - subject from the Napoleonic era. The text reads well, is well structured and is well sourced though I have some grips. Walcheren was and still is part of the province of Zeeland, in the country of the Netherlands, and not Holland.

2006) My Military Career by Lieutenant George Bourne 85th Foot, 1804-1818. 2006) A Narrative of The Battles of Quatre-Bras And Waterloo; With the Defence of Hougoumont By Matthew Clay.