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But the eighteenth century was to see yet another cam- paign in the Netherlandic area. It had not been, on the whole, peculiarly favourable to British arms, and the last campaign there was to be no exception to the rule. For, notwithstanding that the duke had the active co-operation of such men as Ralph Abercromby and John Moore, not much came of it. The allied Russians and British made little headway against the French with the " Batavian Republic, " and a check at Alkmaar, followed by a victo...ry at Egmont-op-Zee on the 2nd October 1779 where, according to the duke, " under Divine Providence, " the French were entirely defeated, and where the Royals, 161 THE STORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY the 2Oth, 25th, 49th, 63rd, 79th, and 92nd did their duty, practically terminated the Helder campaign. For, after an armistice, the British troops left the Netherlands, never to fight seriously in that district until the final victory of 1815, when Wellington, who first saw battle there, was to terminate a series of wars for which the Low Countries had for more than a century been the " cockpit.
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