This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.

Miscellaneous

Maps, views and diagrams of military reviews and encampments

JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE (1752-1806)

Saint-Omer, 1788 (Saint-Omer, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France) 50°45'00"N 02°15'00"E

1788

Three pages of text; ink on one sheet of paper folded in half | 22.8 x 37.2 cm (sheet; folded to 22.8 x 18.6 cm) | RCIN 734110.3.a

This is a contemporary copy of RCIN 734110.2.a (or vice versa).

Condition: four fold lines.
  • John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806) (author)

    Subject(s)

    Army-France
  • Watermark: Horn in crowned shield, the letters GR below

    Mark, stamped: 1064

    Condition: four fold lines

  • 22.8 x 37.2 cm (sheet; folded to 22.8 x 18.6 cm)

  • Manuscript title:

    No title. [Letter from John Graves Simcoe, to an unknown recipient, dated 9 October 1788; addressed from Wolford Lodge (near Exeter, Devon)]

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Encampment at S.Omer, Sep. 1788.

    Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom left, black pencil, in a modern hand:] CMB Jan '87 [i.e. 1987]. (Verso) none.

    George III catalogue entry:

    Encampment A drawn Plan of the French Army at S.t Omer, under the command of the Prince of Condé, in Sept.r 1788; with the Movements of the different Divisions on the 13.th 14.th and 15.th and that of the whole Army on the 17.th of the same month: by Lieut. G. Spencer: with an explanatory Letter from Col. Simcoe. [The same entry appears under the heading St. Omer.]

  • Subject(s)

    Saint-Omer, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50°45'00"N 02°15'00"E)

Page revisions

  • 8 June 2024