Vlissingen

the ground very well.

He had been in command of a squadron blockading Flushing, which was the, one of the, one of the major towns on Walcheren for several months.

So it kind of made sense to appoint him.

Well, regarding those two appointments, one thing I admire about Wellington, he picked really capable subordinates, whether it was Hill or Picton or Beresford.

Um, Lieken's Hoek on the right bank, uh, sorry, left bank, um, and Lillo on the right.

Um, so, uh, the British plan, uh, was to split their 40,000-man-strong army into four parts.

2,000 men would land at Cadzand, um, just south of Walcheren, um, on the other side of the, uh, Veerlegen channel from Flushing, um, or, uh, Vlissingen as it's known in Dutch.

I'm gonna call it Flushing today because that's what our, our listeners are probably most familiar with.

Nearly twenty-two thousand veteran soldiers sailed aboard with twenty thousand sailors to carry them.

More followed from Le Havre, Lorient, Cadiz, Rochefort, and Vlissingen, ports across conquered and allied lands like Spain and the Netherlands, until the men sent to the colony would climb past eighty thousand.

This was no force built merely to win a battle.

Its goal was to break a people whole.

So a lot of Quakers at this time, they end up on the English part of Long Island, but they end up spreading a lot of places, including into the Dutch territory in Nassau County.

Diveson sends a British preacher, Vanderdonk's father-in-law, in fact, which is strange, out there to the town of Vlissingen, later Flushing, go Mets.

Go Mets.

To teach them.

Yeah, like the word Flushing comes from Vlissingen, which I think is insane.

Huh.

But he sends his British preacher out there to teach them how to worship properly.