| Walcheren Island was finally captured and, once the river mouth was cleared of mines, the Scheldt was opened to shipping. |
| After the 1648 Peace of Münster the Dutch Republic managed to perpetuate the Scheldt blockade. |
| The Port of Antwerp have launched a wide market consultation on the 1070 hectares that will be developed on the left bank of the Scheldt. |
| The galiot was gliding rapidly though smoothly through the somewhat yellow waters of the Scheldt. |
| The only way to make sure that the supplies required by the campaign in Europe could enter the continent was to capture the Scheldt. |
| Between it and the sea lay the West Scheldt estuary, passing through parts of Belgium and Holland which the Germans still controlled. |
