...The Scheldt (Dutch: Schelde, French Escaut, Latin Scaldis) is a 350 km[1] long river in northern France, western Belgium and the southwestern part of the Netherlands. Its name is derived from an adjective corresponding to Old English sceald "shallow", Modern English shoal, Low German schol, Frisian skol, and Swedish skäll "thin". Read full entry
This entry is from Wikipedia,the leading user-contributed encyclopedia.It may not have been reviewed by professional editors(See full disclaimer)
- 1.Scheldt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The headwaters of the Scheldt are in Gouy, in the Aisne department of northern France. ... The Scheldt flows through the following departments of France, provinces of ...
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
cheldt
- 2.Battle of the Scheldt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Battle of the Scheldt was a series of military operations of the First ... 1 Opening the Scheldt. 1.1 Fighting North from Antwerp. 1.2 Operation Switchback ...
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
attle_of_the_Scheldt
 |
Essay on the Battle of Scheldt For some reason I'm having
trouble finding resources on
the Battle of Scheldt (already
tried various websites wiki,
elibrary)
Please does any know anything
about it?
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
after the battle for Arnhem = market garden ( a Bridge to far ) the battle for liberating the Schelde estuary. This was fought mainly by the 1ste Canadian army together by the 1ste Polish armored div and the 49 and 52 British div. The difficulty's they faced where that this part of Belgium and nederland was very easy to inundate and also there where many canals to cross so not a country where you can use a lot of armour First they had to eliminate the breskens pocket to clear the left side of the Schelde. This was done by crossing the mud plains of the braakman by buffalo's the only vehicle that could cross this mud fields. Also clear the right bank witch also Incorporated the island of Walcheren. This was only connected to the main land by one dike ( the sloedam ) very heavenly defended. In fact the island was a part of the Atlantic wall and so it blocked the entire entrance to the schelde. The only possibility was to bomb the dykes around the island and create so a new beach where it was possible to do a naval assault inside the perimeter of the German defense best is to do a search with the names of the operations like operation vitality, switchback ,infatuate or the place names like sloedam, walcheren, bresken, south beveland, leopold canal etc |
|
|
|
|
|
How did the canals and contributed to the countries'
prosperity?
I just need an explanation
from these phrases:
"The great rivers Rhine,
Meuse, and Scheldt, with their
many tributaries, supplemented
by canals, form navigable
waterways which have
contributed so much to the
prosperity of these
countries."
"The fertile land and the
great navigable rivers created
and maintained a number of
Medieval states and prosperous
cities, dependent culturally
on either France or Germany."
is it pertaining to trading,
etc? I don't know exactly what
it is talking about.
thanks.
I'm talking about Gothic
architecture on Belgium and
Netherlands.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Before railways, water transport by rivers and canals was a very efficient method of moving heavy cargo. But I think the point of the passage you quote is that the canals linked rivers so that cargo could be transported in the one vessel rather than requiring transshipment and land transport between the existing rivers. |
|
|
|
|
* Indicates a required fieldAdd your knowledge or ask a question:
