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Walcheren

an island in the SW Netherlands, in the Scheldt estuary: administratively part of Zeeland province; suffered severely in World War II, when the dykes were breached, and again in the floods of 1953. Area: 212 sq. km (82 sq. miles)
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Foulkes sought to extend the neutral zone further north, and promised to carry out no offensive operations in a huge triangle drawn between Walcheren Island on the coast of Holland at the mouth of the Scheldt River, extending to the Ijsselmeer, the largest lake in Western Europe located in the country's centre-north.
(21) ANWB Archief Den Haag 181, Verslag van de Vereeniging Rijwielpad 'Walcheren' over het jaar 1932, 1934; ANWB Archief Den Haag 172, Jaarverslag van de Vereeniging voor aanleg en onderhoud van Rijwielpaden in Gooi- en Eemland, 1921, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1941.
But she soon returned to the battle and took part in the bombardment of Brest, Le Havre and Walcheren.
Richard Brooks's WALCHEREN 1944: STORMING HITLER'S ISLAND FORTRESS tells of 1944 (9781849083652, $24.95) when the Allies captured the port city of Antwerp.
Cauliflower Walcheren Winter 3 Armado April - hardy, can be cut in March.
Cauliflower Walcheren Winter 3 - this ultra-hardy cauli can be cut as early as March.
Probably his patron did not regret a delay which further advanced Philip's ambition to bring the Revival of Learning to the North; in fact to Walcheren, the outmost island of the Zeeland Archipelago formed by the confluence of the deltas of the rivers Scheldt, Maas and Waal.
He managed to avoid sniper's bullets in Normandy, but it was in late 1944 that Don had his first experience of battle during the fight for Walcheren Island off the coast of Holland.
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