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'Siege de Gibraltar Plan des Dispositions Generales et des Maneuvres Projetées, Comparées...
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/28
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This record is about the 'Siege de Gibraltar Plan des Dispositions Generales et des Maneuvres Projetées, Comparées... dating from [?1782] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPHH 1/28
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Date (When the record was created)
- [?1782]
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Description (What the record is about)
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'Siege de Gibraltar Plan des Dispositions Generales et des Maneuvres Projetées, Comparées a l'Execution du 13 7 bre 1782': plan showing details of the attack on Gibraltar as planned and as executed on 13 September 1782; including a perspective drawing and sections of the floating battery. Reference table to fortifications of Gibraltar and Spanish lines. Scales: Plans 12.5 cm to 600 toises [1:9,205]; Sections 9.8 cm to 25 pieds [1:72]. Compass indicator. (2) Engraved by Weis, Strasbourg. (1) Reduced photographic copy of (2). Dimensions of sheet 2: 70 cm x 73 cm.
Includes 1 photograph depicting: 'Siege de Gibraltar: plan des dispositions generales et des maneuvres projetees, comparees a l'execution du 13 7bre 1782'. Photo print of whole sheet of plans and sections. Dated no date.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1307
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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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 1806.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4561132/
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