The Sloedam is 1 km long a dam, that was constructed in 1871, as a necessary part of the Roosendaal-Vlissingen Railway, the so-called Zeeuwse Lijn (Zealandic Line). Additionnaly this dam connected the island of Walcheren with Zuid-Beveland across the Sloe waterway, and therefore with the mainland of Brabant.[1]
^"SLOEDAM". Encyclopedie van Zeeland (in Dutch). Kon. Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen. 1982. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
The Sloedam is 1 km long a dam, that was constructed in 1871, as a necessary part of the Roosendaal-Vlissingen Railway, the so-called Zeeuwse Lijn (Zealandic...
also the second major battle fought over a terrain feature known as the Sloedam during the Second World War. After the breakout from Normandy by the Allied...
third municipality is Veere. Originally, Walcheren was an island, but the Sloedam, constructed in 1871 for a railway, and poldering after World War II have...
South Beveland on 15 May. The next day fierce fighting took place on the Sloedam, which connects South Beveland and Walcheren, but the positions were overrun...
the Danish mainland Sanibel Causeway, Sanibel, Florida, United States Sloedam, Zeeland, Netherlands Swarkestone causeway, Derby, England, United Kingdom...
the Deutschland Regiment successfully made an opposed crossing of the Sloedam from east to west, a feat attempted four years later by elements of the...
Delta Works Haringvlietdam Hartelkering Oosterscheldekering Philipsdam Sloedam Zuiderzee Works Boškov Dam Čebren Dam Kozjak Dam Spilje Dam, Lake Debar...
in the evening of the same day to force the eight hundred metres long Sloedam, over which most of the French troops had fled to Walcheren, was cancelled...
reached the Sloedam early in the evening, but avoided contact. The majority of Dutch units around Goes had managed to cross the Sloedam or had taken...
Sloedam causeway from the east, across the Scheldt from the south, and by sea from the west. The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division attacked the Sloedam causeway...
Deutschland of the 2nd SS Panzer Division crossed onto Walcheren via the Sloedam and by 18:00 that evening, the Dutch forces on the island, including the...
August 1817, but the prosperity of Middelburg was not restored. In 1871 the Sloedam was constructed for the Roosendaal–Vlissingen railway. The dam connected...
completion of the dam with sand and clay. For instance, the construction of the Sloedam in 1879, as part of the railway to Middelburg, utilised this technique...
After the Allies established bridgeheads at Vlissingen and across the Sloedam causeway, and cleared the Westkapelle and Domburg Atlantic Wall gun emplacements...
Initially, an infantry attack across the island of Zuid-Beveland and the Sloedam, that connected it with Walcheren, supported by airborne landings on both...
used across the Netherlands, including in works at Schellingwoude and the Sloedam, along with sections of embankments at the Hollands Diep and shore protection...
Zandkreek. In combination with the effects of the previously-constructed Sloedam, this would shorten the coastline from 52 kilometers to 2.5 kilometres...
Roosendaal–Vlissingen railway. Part of the works was the construction of the Sloedam, which was ordered in July 1866, and completed in June 1867. On 29 February...
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