1054 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photo from Hugh M. Smith 

 WINDMIIvL OF WALCHJ:re:N, OF THE) PROVINCE^ 01^ ZIvAI^AND, HOI.LAND 



The island of Walcheren was the scene of one of the greatest disasters in British history. 

 When the Earl of Chatham was driven out of Holland, after the invasion of the summer of 

 1809, he left 15,000 troops on Walcheren. More than one-half of them perished here from 

 swamp fever before relief came in December, and half of the remainder were permanently 

 disabled. All the photographs given on pages 1054-1066 were taken in the province of 

 Zealand, whose inhabitants still retain many quaint and archaic peculiarities of dress, and 

 speak the variety of Dutch known as Low Frankish. 



