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Spain: Cadiz. Seven sheets of plans and sections of fortifications [during the Peninsular...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/1065
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This record is about the Spain: Cadiz. Seven sheets of plans and sections of fortifications [during the Peninsular... 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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- MR 1/1065
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1810
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Description (What the record is about)
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Spain: Cadiz. Seven sheets of plans and sections of fortifications [during the Peninsular War]. (1, 7) Two sheets of section of the citadel of San Fernando [a fortress on a peninsula about 2 miles or 3.25 km east of Cadiz]. (2) Plan of the battery of Santa Catalina. (3) Plan and 2 sections of Fort Puntales [opposite Santa Catalina]. (4) Plan of the citadel of San Fernando. (5) Plan of Puene de Suaza, a fortified bridge. (6) Plan of the castle of Santa Catalina; damaged. Scale: (1) 17.8 cm to 15 varas [1:72]; (2) 14 cm to 100 varas [1:600]; (3) 9.5 cm to 30 varas [1:264] (plan), a sections 9.8 cm to 15 toises [1:252] (section); (4) [none shown: an additional scale bar on item (1), measuring 6.8 cm to 11 varas [1:132] and labelled 'Plan', might refer to this plan]; (5) 10.2 cm to 30 varas [1:246]; (6) 3 inches to 160 feet [1:640]; (7) [incomplete scale bar]. Compass indicators to items (2) and (4). Each sheet endorsed with the name Captain Landmann. Dimensions: (1) 49 cm x 66 cm; (2) 43 cm x 53 cm; (3) 42 cm x 53 cm; (4) 63 cm x 76 cm; (5) 42 cm x 30 cm; (6) 67 cm x 51 cm; (7) 50 cm x 191 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1952
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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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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- MS, coloured
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- 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: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entries 4225-4228
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4560092/
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