The Walcheren Expedition: the Experiences of a British Officer of the 81st Regt. During the Campaign in the Low Countries of 1809

A little covered Napoleonic campaign

The Walcheren Expedition often appears in military memoirs of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, though rarely in much detail. The impression that the reader gains is that it was a campaign of appalling conditions producing crippling and debilitating illness that swept away many and left survivors so broken in health that they were unfit for immediate military service and indeed were frequently invalided for life. Here then is a rare account in...