Reference > Columbia Encyclopedia
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · INDEX · GUIDE · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.  2001-07.
 
Camperdown
 
 
(km´prdoun´´) (KEY) , Du. Kamperduin [the dune of Kamp], locality near the village of Kamp, North Holland prov., NW Netherlands, on the North Sea. In 1797 the British defeated the Dutch in a naval battle off Camperdown.
 
 
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2007 Columbia University Press.

CONTENTS · INDEX · GUIDE · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com