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Walcheren Expedition
The Walcheren expedition (July 30 - December 10, 1809), a British military operation during the Napoleonic Wars, formed the last in a series of operations in Flanders (present-day Belgium) in 1809. In the largest British expedition of that year, around 40,000 soldiers, 15,000 horses together with field artillery and two siege trains crossed the North Sea.
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