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(1) 'Sketch Shewing the Relative Situation of the Frontier Fortresses of France As...
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/278
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- MPHH 1/278
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1816
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Description (What the record is about)
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(1) 'Sketch Shewing the Relative Situation of the Frontier Fortresses of France As occupied by the Allied Army With respect to each other and to Paris': map showing fortresses, roads, rivers and hills between Dunkirk and Fort Louis on the River Rhine, with a southern extension to Paris. Reference table of fortresses and nationalities of garrisons. Compass indicator. Signed by Colonel J Carmichael Smyth, Commanding RE, Cambrai, 17 May 1816. (2) Reduced scale copy of (1), with extension to include Rheims added in pencil. By J Field, Royal Military Surveyor and Draughtsman 3rd Class, 20 August 1816. (3) Copy of (2); by J Field, August 1816. (4) Reduced scale copy of (1), detail as per (2); by W J Kaye, Royal Military Surveyor and Draughtsman 3rd Class, 14 November 1816. (5) Copy of (1), detail as per (2); by J Field, 24 December 1816. (6) Copy of (1), with extension to include Rheims in colour; unsigned. Approximate scales: (1) and (6) 1 inch to 7 miles [1:443,520]; (2)-(3) 1 inch to 14 miles [1:887,040]; (4)-(5) 1 inch to 10 miles [1:633,600].
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- X 60/10
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1888
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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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), entry 991.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4561382/
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