Scheldt

"Well, well," said Cornelius, "you are a very skilful pilot, John; but I doubt whether you will as safely guide your brother out of the Buytenhof in the midst of this gale, and through the raging surf of popular hatred, as you did the fleet of Van Tromp past the shoals of the Scheldt to Antwerp."

It sits on the east bank of the River Scheldt. Over the centuries it has served as a fortress, a prison and, more recently, a maritime museum.

The company, Tocardo Tidal Turbines, said it will install five tidal turbines at the storm surge barrier of the Eastern Scheldt Estuary.

He also took part in the Battle of the Scheldt later that year, which opened up Antwerp to Allied shipping.

Which European port, located on the River Scheldt, is fifty-five miles from the sea?

The French now moved south and Marlborough's men made an astonishing forced march in two days to reach Oudenarde on the River Scheldt. Some of the infantry arrived at a run.

The moonlit River Scheldt in Act II features real water on stage, with waves audibly lapping the shoreline.

Transferred to Harwich after being damaged, she escorted convoys between the Thames and the Scheldt.

Prize-winning author and military historian Mark Zuehlke presents Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13--November 6, 1944, the grim true story of the First Canadian Army's deadliest battle of World War II.

Terrible Victory covers the little known series of battles to wrest the strategically vital Scheldt estuary from the Germans.

The EIB said this was a "major issue" where Belgium had to "make up for lost time." The projects will improve water quality in the main towns in the regions, have a directly beneficial impact on the Sambre, Scheldt and Meuse rivers and raise the quality of bathing water on the Belgian and Dutch coasts.