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Barbados. (1) Plan of Ricketts Battery, Carlisle Bay. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]....
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/89
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- MPHH 1/89
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1811
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Barbados. (1) Plan of Ricketts Battery, Carlisle Bay. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. Compass indicator. Endorsed: 1811. (2) A sketch plan of Carlisle Bay and the adjacent coast; showing range of Ricketts and Beckwiths Batteries, a proposed mortar Battery and ruins. Scale: 1 inch to 500 feet. Endorsed: 'to accompany estimate for 1811'. Both by Edmund Burman, Royal Military Surveyor and Draughtsman, February 1811; and signed by Brigadier General Charles Shipley, Commanding RE in West Indies. Dimensions: (1) 49.5 cm x 36.8 cm (2) 121.9 cm x 71.1 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- WO 78/1345
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 3191
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