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The Weather Forecasts of Spiders Helped the French Invasion of Holland at the End of the 18th Century

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Predictions of time based on spider behavior were decisive in the French conquest of Holland during a cold winter of the late eighteenth century.Capture of the Dutch fleet by Husars of the French Republic, January 1795. Recorded by E. G. H. Del'Orme (1896).In the long military history, practically the only reference to a cavalry attack on a fleet of ships trapped in the ice is that which took place on 21 January 1795 in the Dutch port of Den Hel…
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Predictions of time based on spider behavior were decisive in the French conquest of Holland during a cold winter of the late eighteenth century.Capture of the Dutch fleet by Husars of the French Republic, January 1795. Recorded by E. G. H. Del'Orme (1896).In the long military history, practically the only reference to a cavalry attack on a fleet of ships trapped in the ice is that which took place on 21 January 1795 in the Dutch port of Den Hel…

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meteored.cl broke the news on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
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