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Venezuela. 'Land Grant to C C Fitzgerald, C.M.E., from the Supreme Government of...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1287
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This record is about the Venezuela. 'Land Grant to C C Fitzgerald, C.M.E., from the Supreme Government of... dating from 1884 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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FO 925/1287
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Date (When the record was created)
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1884
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Venezuela. 'Land Grant to C C Fitzgerald, C.M.E., from the Supreme Government of the Republic of Venezuela': map. The grant is coloured yellow and shows an area named Manoa on both sides of the main stream of the River Orinoco with a detached area, Isla Pedernales de Manoa, in the north west of the delta. Scale: 1 inch to about 28 miles. Compass indicator. Inset map of Venezuela and the West Indies. Lithographed at the Intelligence Branch, War Office, November 1884.
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For an earlier printed version of this map, see MPK 1/169
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- The National Archives, Kew
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English
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36 cm x 30.5 cm
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Lithographed, coloured
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 4458
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3817856/
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