Napoleonic map. Mouth of Scheldt river (Bouches-de-L'Escaut). It was a department of the First French Empire which was formed in 1810, when the Kingdom of Holland was annexed by France. (Netherlands). Scheldt is an European river which born in France, crosses Belgium and empties into the North Sea forming an estuary. Atlas de l'Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). Drawings by Dufour, engravings by Dyonnet. Edited in Paris, 1864.

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