Scheldt

Speech parts

1. Scheldt - Noun

2. Scheldt - Proper noun

Meaning

a river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea

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Britain had an interest in the Scheldt River and the Meuse flowed from France. Source: Internet

Copp, 1981 p. 149 On 3 September 1944 Hitler ordered the 15th German Army, which had stationed in the Pas de Calais region and was withdrawing north into the Low Countries to hold the mouth of the river Scheldt to deprive the Allies of the use of Antwerp. Source: Internet

Chandler: Marlborough, 211–2 After a forced march the Allied army, comprising some 80,000 men, engaged Vendôme's and Burgundy's slightly larger force on the river Scheldt and won another major victory at the Battle of Oudenarde on 11 July 1708. Source: Internet

Flowing south of Walcheren Island is the estuary of the River Scheldt that leads to the huge, deep-water port of Antwerp, Belgium. Source: Internet

France ended the prohibition against seaborne trade on the Scheldt that had been enforced by the Netherlands. Source: Internet

It was the first solid connection between both banks of the Western Scheldt and ended the era of water separating the islands and peninsulas of Zeeland. Source: Internet

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