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Texel is a municipality and an island with a populace of thirteen,641 within the province of North Holland within the Netherlands. It is the most important and maximum populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. The island is located north of Den Helder, northeast of Noorderhaaks, also referred to as "Razende Bol" and southwest of Vlieland. The All Saints' Flood 1170 created the islands of Texel and Wieringen from North Holland. In the 13th century Ada, Countess of Holland was held prisoner on Texel via her uncle William.

Texel acquired town rights in 1415. Texel was concerned inside the Battle of Scheveningen 1653 for the duration of the First Anglo-Dutch War and the Battle of Texel 1673 at some stage in the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Texel is also famous in navy history as the most effective location wherein a navy changed into defeated on horseback. Occupying Holland in January 1795, the French continental military found out that the strong Dutch army were frozen into the ice round Texel, so Commandant Louis Joseph Lahure and 128 guys rode up to it and demanded give up. No pictures have been fired. In 1797, Texel turned into involved inside the Battle of Camperdown throughout the French Revolutionary Wars.

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