Bound manuscript Order Book containing General Orders issued by Lt Gen George Don whilst commander of the troops in Walcheren, 28 Oct to 22 Dec 1809.
The orders are written in several different hands, and cover staff appointments and other arrangements. In addition they include names of officers and numbers of men (regiments specified) returning to England on medical grounds, the names of their ships often being included. The December orders give the arrangements for the final evacuation of the island by the British troops garrisoned there. 
Associated with the Expedition to Walcheren, Napoleonic Wars, Holland (1809), 1809.