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2 items (enclosures to letter of Colonel J P Desmaretz to H S Conway, 20 September...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/270
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- MPF 1/270
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- 1765
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2 items (enclosures to letter of Colonel J P Desmaretz to H S Conway, 20 September 1765) extracted from SP 78/267 (folio 231a). France: Dunkirk. (1) 'Plan of Part of Dunkirk and the Channel from the Works of the Town to the lowest ebbing of the Tides ...'. Scale: 9.6 cm to 200 toises [1:4090]. Compass indicator. (2) Two sections taken at breaches in the east jetty, Dunkirk. Scale: 27.2 cm to 20 toises [1:144]. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 33 cm x 47 cm; (2) 24 cm x 102 cm. Both signed by Colonel J P Desmaretz, 20 September 1765.
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 1200.
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