Withdrawal and Aftermath

Though the Anglo-Russian losses at Castricum were about double the Franco-Batavian losses, they had not been devastating; nevertheless the Duke of York convened a council of war with his lieutenants-general. The campaign concluded with the withdrawal of the expedition: the Russians sailed along the British coast to the Channel Islands, where they spent the winter before returning to St. Petersburg in August 1800. In Parliament, Opposition leader Richard Brinsley Sheridan severely castigated the government in a House of Commons speech delivered on 9 February 1800. In the years following the invasion, defensive lines were constructed in Holland to protect Amsterdam from future invasions from the north.