Flushing and Walcheren, 1784

N:o 3 Plan, sections, & perspective View of part of Vlissingen, described in N:o 2. / under the Cyphers 12 and 13

A combination reconnaissance plan and view, together with four other manuscript maps and plans at RCINs 734102.2.a-e, which appear to result from a clandestine intelligence gathering operation on the Walcheren area in December 1784 in advance of proposed British hostilities. Oriented with north to top.

Inset: [top left:] N:^o 4 View of Rammekins from the south west. [showing, at letter A:] Part of the Calot Shoal as it appears half Flood Tyde.

Additional text: [left, below title:] There are no Cannon in this Work / The landing is good, & the Curts. to the Eastward of the Salient Angles / might be storm'd with the greatest probability of success.

Five plans of part of the island of Walcheren and the attack on Flushing (Vlissingen). Formerly contained in a rough buff paper folder on which the old heading is written: XIV/102-2-a-e ['a-e' added in later hand] Walcheren, 1784. [Bottom, black pencil, in a modern hand:] Jan '87 [i.e. 1987] CMB.

Condition: no fold lines. Verso: heavy surface dirt along left edge.