Talk:Walcheren Campaign

"French victory"
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)

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

The Cursed Isle
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)