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This is the 1849 Van Diggelen Plan for land reclamation in the Netherlands. As you can see, it envisioned draining all of Holland's inland sea.
This is what we got IOTL. Not as impressive. So what if they had been more ambitious? Would that land have any impact on world events? (I'm thinking it would affect Operation Market Garden). What would be the environmental impact?