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France: 'A Plan of the Harbour of Cherbourg shewing the Works carrying on for the...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/176
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This record is about the France: 'A Plan of the Harbour of Cherbourg shewing the Works carrying on for the... dating from c 1808 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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- c 1808
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France: 'A Plan of the Harbour of Cherbourg shewing the Works carrying on for the purpose of making it a Naval Station for Ships of War. Copied from a French map by Monsieur Madenié': plan also shows proposed construction, forts with armament, military buildings, place names, breakwaters. Scale: 28 cm to 2100 toise. Compass indicator. Inset: 'Extract from an unpublished Plan drawn to half this Scale', showing construction of breakwaters. Copied by A Gray, RMSD from a French engraved map by M Madenié. Notes in red ink are described as from 'the manuscript of some Frenchman'; notes in black are 'from the original Engraving'. Endorsed: 'Lieut General Doyle, Guernsey'; Doyle was promoted Lieutenant General on 25 April 1808.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- SP 112/15
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- 47 cm x 87 cm
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Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 1150
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 1150
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