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1 item (enclosure to Count Alfred Nugent's letter of 10 February 1840 to Colonel...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/32
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This record is about the 1 item (enclosure to Count Alfred Nugent's letter of 10 February 1840 to Colonel... dating from 1840 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPK 1/32
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1840
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (enclosure to Count Alfred Nugent's letter of 10 February 1840 to Colonel Hodges, Consul General in Egypt) extracted from FO 78/404 (folio 39). Plan of the defences of Alexandria, Egypt, showing the probable position of the Egyptian fleet in the Old Port, and the proposed position of a British bombarding squadron off the city. Scale: 4 inches to 1 mile. Compass rose. Drawn by Count Alfred Nugent, Lt Imperial Austrian Navy, who added many notes to the plan.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 31 cm x 37 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:15840
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 549
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980053/
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