2.e Plan d'une Batterie & d'une Redoute avec un Corps de Garde construit en forme de Redoute a Machecoulis pour y Servir de Rentranchement a une Garde de 20 hommes ou plus

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2.e Plan d'une Batterie & d'une Redoute avec un Corps de Garde construit en forme de Redoute a Machecoulis pour y Servir de Rentranchement a une Garde de 20 hommes ou plus
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Title:
2.e Plan d'une Batterie & d'une Redoute avec un Corps de Garde construit en forme de Redoute a Machecoulis pour y Servir de Rentranchement a une Garde de 20 hommes ou plus
Cartographer:
Thomas, John, the Elder
Former owner:
George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Donor:
George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Date:
1738
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Military art and science--Georgia--Saint Simons Island--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fortification--Georgia--Saint Simons Island--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Saint Simons Island (Ga.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Glynn (county) > Saint Simons Island (island)
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 21 x 30 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Scale:
Scale not given
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004987601
Notes:
Production details from Cumming (third edition) and from a manuscript note in the British Museum catalogue (Maps C.21 bb.3) referencing a letter from Mrs Margaret Davis Cate, 29 July 1955.
Title across the map.
Boundary line shoun around the fort, within which nothing should be planted.
Compare Maps K.Top.122.72.
Titled "Plan dessiné d'une Batterie et d'une Redoute, avec un Corps de Garde, dans l'Isle de St. Simon" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Titled "Plan d'une Batterie et d'une Redoute, avec un corps de garde" in St. Simon's Island: 12 in. x 8 in. in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.
Proposed fortifications on the southern tip of Saint Simons Island, Georgia.