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6 items (maps numbers 1-6 respectively referred to in Article 1 of the Agreement...

Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/89

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MFQ 1/89

Date

1908-1915

Description

6 items (maps numbers 1-6 respectively referred to in Article 1 of the Agreement respecting the Anglo-Belgian boundary in East Africa, 3 February 1915) extracted from FO 93/14/97. Uganda; Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). (1) GSGS 2662: 'Map attached to protocol describing boundary between the Uganda Protectorate and the Belgian Colony of Congo from Mount Nkabwa to Mount Sabinio'. Reference table. Scale: 1:200000. Printed at the War Office, 1912. (2) GSGS 1764. 'Uganda -Congo Commission 1906-08'. 'Africa 1:250000'. 'Sheet 92-F and part of 93-A' ' Lake Edward'. Reference table. Index diagram to adjoining sheets. Surveyed by the British Section of the Commission under Major R G T Bright CMG. (3) GSGS 1764. 'Uganda -Congo Commission 1906-08'. 'Africa 1:250000'. 'Parts of sheets 85-X & 86-S'. ' Fort Portal'. Reference table. Index diagram to adjoining sheets. Surveyed by the British Section of the Commission under Major R G T Bright CMG. (4) GSGS 2571. 'Africa 1:250000'. 'Sheet North A-36 M'. ' Lake Albert'. Reference tables. Index diagram to adjoining sheets. Detail to the SE of the lake by Captain W C Macfie, Royal Engineers, in charge of the Uganda Topographical Survey 1909. Detail north of 1°30' on NW side of lake by Mr J S Coates 1908. Drawn and printed at the War Office, 1911. (5) GSGS 2571. Africa 1:250000'. Sheet North A-36 N'. 'Hoima'. Reference tables. Index diagram to adjoining sheets. Surveyed under the direction of Captain [W C] Macfie, Royal Engineers, in charge of the Uganda Topographical Survey, 1909-1910. Drawn and printed at the War Office 1911. An overprint shows the international boundary agreed, 3 February 1915, which follows the line determined by a Mixed Commission at Brussels in 1910. (6) GSGS 2689: 'Map showing boundary between [the Sudan, cancelled] Uganda and the Belgian Congo as proposed by the boundary commissioners [Capt. Coode RE and Lt Jadot, cancelled]'. On the map Uganda has initially been lablelled Sudan: this has been cancelled. Reference table. Scale: 1:200000. Coloured MS amendments show the international boundary agreed on 3 February 1915, which follows the line determined by a mixed commission in 1913.

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Archives and libraries
Army
Democracy
Maps and plans
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
Africa
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