Footage of the Royal Marines at the Battle of Walcheren in November 1944 which was part of Operation Infatuate. (Curtesy of @Debonair Extraordinaire)
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Following D-Day in 1944 as early as September Winston Churchill had written to his chiefs-of-staff about the importance of the Walcheren area and how occupying the port of Antwerp could solve the increasing supply difficulties they were experiencing referred to as the ‘supply famine’.
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Hitler had ordered that the Walcheren wa...s to become a fortress to stop the Allies advance, the Canadian and Polish army were sent to attack the area. Wherever the Canadians and Poles advanced, they came up against stiff German opposition.
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Find out what happened in Anterp and how this led to the battle of Walcheren, what tactics did they use to defeat the Germans and why were the British army experiencing a supply famine on the History Learning Site https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/…/antwerp-and-world-…/
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Weird Facts – The Black Death & Medieval Cures
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The Black Death also known as the bubonic plague wreaked havoc throughout Medieval England. It killed a tremendous amount of people and was to have a direct link to the Peasants Revolt of 1381. None of the cures created were successful in fighting the plague in the 1300’s.
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Symptoms of the Black Death included vomiting, pus-filled boils and tumors, and blackened, dead skin....
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One absurd cure was to use Witchcraft – ‘Place a live hen next to the swelling to draw out the pestilence from the body. To aid recovery you should drink a glass of your own urine twice a day.’
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Find out the many other forms of treatment doctors of the medieval times administered in an attempt to cure patients from the plague on the History Learning Site https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/…/cures-for-the-blac…/
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