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The Diary Junction Blog Pikle (talk) 10:17, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"French victory"[edit]

The British withdrew because of sickness, it wasn't a military victory or defeat for anyone, so how can it be a French victory? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimmysales7 (talk • contribs) 03:10, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Navy details contradictory or missing[edit]

The brief paragraph entitled "Naval Forces" does not seem to reflect the same information as conveyed on the Threedecks entry [1], which appears to be mostly sourced from Clowes' The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present [2], pp. 271-277. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laterthanyouthink (talk • contribs) 11:11, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Cursed Isle[edit]

Since, as it says here, The medical provisions for the expedition proved inadequate despite reports that an occupying French force had lost 80% of its numbers a few years earlier, also due to disease. it would be interesting to know if Walcheren --- despite the lack of specific causes like [ temporary ] over-population and the cocktail of different diseases that made up Walcheren Fever --- had in previous ages been dangerous medically, and/or remains so today * ? One would imagine the Netherlands coast to be generally healthful [ without poverty, a bane of many coastal settlements. ]

Minus the modern advances, antibiotics, diet, IVs, medicaments, nursing etc. ( noting that sometimes pumping people with IVs can actually cause Anasarca and ascites, one of the symptoms here... ).

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I found this helpful though short:

The Lessons of Walcheren Fever, 1809]  by John Lynch, MPAS PA-C

Can't give link as Wikipedia has banned the site as dangerous. But the paper was published in MILITARY MEDICINE, Vol. 174, March 2009 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Claverhouse (talk • contribs) 15:50, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]