Encampment at George Stadt, 1741

A PLAN of GEORGE = STADT = CAMP, near the RIVER GUANTAMANO, in the ISLAND of CUBA: / and also of the INTRENCHMENTS made on the adjacen Hills: Represented more at Large with their PROFILS

Plans of the British encampment at George Stadt on the Guantánamo River, Cuba, in 1741. War with Spain (Jenkins's Ear) (1739-48): part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). The grounds for the attribution, in the old catalogue, to ‘Captain Thomas Eng.r’ are not known. According to Conolly (List 2, no.75, p.4), a Practitioner Engineer by the name of John Thomas saw service in Cartagena and died in Flanders in 1747. No other rank is given for him, although he may have held a captain's rank in the army. If this John Thomas is not the author of this map, then it is possible that the Captain referred to in the old catalogue was a Captain of a Regiment of Foot who was temporarily appointed as an engineer. Another manuscript copy of this map by John Thomas is in the Library of Congress Call Number G4922.G83R4 1741.T5 Vault. This bears the following inscription in the rectangular space at the bottom of the map: ‘To HIS GRACE IOHN DUKE of MONTAGU this PLAN is most humbly Dedicated by HIS GRACE.S most Humble and Dutifull Servant: Iohn = Thomas.’ The encamped regiments, under the command of General Wentworth and Brigadiers Blakeney and Lowther, were: Harrison's Wentworth's. Wolfes, Frazier's, Lowther's, Wyniards' Cockran's and Cotterel's. These regiments (or battalions from these regiments) had been present at Cartagena. Another manuscript copy of this map, attributed to Captain John Thomas, is at RCIN 728043. Insets: [top left, a plan of the hospital and adjacent fortified line.] Scale: Scale for the Profil [92 mm = 140 Feet], 1:464 approx. Scale for the Plan [92 mm = 200 Feet], 1:662 approx. Size [irregular shape, maximum dimensions:] 27.7 x 20.3 cm. [Top right, two plans and three profiles of the intrenchments on the hill.] Scale: Scale for the Plans [42 mm = 100 Feet], 1:725 approx. Scale for the Profil [51 mm = 20 feet], 1:119 approx. Size: 9.3 x 10.9 cm (neatline); [irregular shape, maximum dimensions:] 17.6 x 15.6 cm. Additional text: [bottom, below map, in rectangular panel in four columns, a key, A-I, K-W, to the camp and field fortifications:] REFERENCES [and another key, a-i, k-s, to the regiments and the location of different sections of the camp.] Condition: one fold line; brown stains and some foxing. Verso: bottom centre, water-stained from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.