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5 items (originally enclosed in Major General Campbell's despatch to Lord Liverpool,...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/48
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This record is about the 5 items (originally enclosed in Major General Campbell's despatch to Lord Liverpool,... dating from 1810 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1810
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5 items (originally enclosed in Major General Campbell's despatch to Lord Liverpool, 22 February 1810) extracted from WO 1/290. Gibraltar. (1) 'Plan of Fort St. Philip, Fort St. Barbara, and the Lines before Gibraltar; previous to their being destroyed on the 14th Febry. 1810'. Title in a panel to the right of the plan. Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet [1:1,200]. (2) 'Plan of Fort St. Philip previous to its being destroyed ..'. Scale: 1 inch to 50 feet [1:600]. By T Peckham. (3-4) Two watercolour views: (3) 'Sketch of the Ruins of Fort St. Barbara ...'; (4) 'Sketch of the Ruins of Fort St. Philip ...'. (5) 'Plan of Fort St. Barbara previous to its being destroyed ...'. Scale: 1 inch to 25 feet [1:300]. Items (3-5) by John S Sedley, Royal Military Surveyor and Draughtsman. All items signed: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Holloway, Commanding Royal Engineer. Dimensions: (1) 30 cm x 180 cm; (2) 31 cm x 42 cm; (3) 46 cm x 37 cm; (4) 37 cm x 46 cm; (5) 57.5 cm x 44.5 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 4198
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