Carte du Pouldu avec ses environs et la côte de la mer : ou on y voit la disposition de nos batteries, et corps de garde, avec l'endroit ou les Anglois, ont faits leur descente, le premier octobre mil sept cent quarente six, dans l'esperance ou ils estoient de se rendre maistres de l'Orient et par cette conqueste, s'emparer de la Bretagne; mais ou ils ont perdûs leurs peines

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Title:
Carte du Pouldu avec ses environs et la côte de la mer : ou on y voit la disposition de nos batteries, et corps de garde, avec l'endroit ou les Anglois, ont faits leur descente, le premier octobre mil sept cent quarente six, dans l'esperance ou ils estoient de se rendre maistres de l'Orient et par cette conqueste, s'emparer de la Bretagne; mais ou ils ont perdûs leurs peines
Description:
Identifies military sites important during the British retreat from Pouldu, France in 1746. The combined naval and army campaign against Brittany, led by vice admiral Richard Lestock, failed to capture the Compagnie des Indes dockyard in nearby Lorient (not shown on map). Keyed to references A-Z and AA. From French army officer Dumont de Montigny's 1747 manuscript memoire of his experiences in Louisiana between 1715-1737.
Creator:
Dumont de Montigny
Date:
[1747]
Format:
Maps
Manuscripts
Location:
Newberry Library
Collection (local):
Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection
Subjects:
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748--Campaigns--France--Brittany--Maps--Early works to 1800
Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
Pouldu (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
France > Brittany (region) > Le Pouldu
Extent:
1 ms. map : hand col. ; 223 x 390 mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vn664
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:19,500]
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991477298805867
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
Oriented with northeast at top.
Note on verso: No. 12, page 308.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, red, blue).
No. 12 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Call #:
Ayer MS 257 map 12 (NLO)

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