The Seven Years War (1756-63)
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Map of Cancale and Saint-Malo, 1758 (Cancale, Brittany, France) 48°40'33"N 01°51'08"W; (Saint-Malo, Brittany, France) 48°39'00"N 02°01'00"W
c.1758Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:23,000 approx. | RCIN 732055.a
The positions of the camp of the 1st Guards, the 1st Brigade, the Light Horse and the Artillery at Paramé are shown, together with the routes, shown in yellow, taken by the troops and the location of disembarkation on 5 and 6 June and re-embarkation on 12 June, and the positions of the camp at Cancale. Fields cultivated, perhaps with wheat (a forage crop), are shown in yellow with pecked stripes representing ploughed furrows.
Condition: one fold line. Verso: surface dirt; induced discolouration; water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label.
? Sir David Dundas (1735-1820) (surveyor and draughtsman)
Subject(s)
Army-GBWatermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, the letters L V G below; countermark: IVILLEDARY
Mark, stamped: 836
Condition: one fold line. Verso: surface dirt; induced discolouration; water-stained patch and shadow from the removal of Cumberland's cipher label
Scale: 1:23,000 approx. Scale bar: Une Lieue [192 mm =]
38.2 x 73.5 cm (image and neatline)
51.3 x 75.2 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
A Map of the Bay and Coast from Cancalle to S.t Malo, / relative to the Expedition under the Duke of Marlborough in / May and June 1758. [top, right of centre, inside neatline]
Annotations:
George III heading: Cancalle and S.t Malo 5-12 June 1758.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil:] May 1758; [bottom right, ink, twentieth-century hand, and referring to the stamped numbers on the maps:] No. 836-838.
George III catalogue entry:
Cancalle A drawn Map of the Bay and Coast from Cancalle to S.t Malo relative to the Expedition under the Duke of Marlborough in June 1758 inclosing a copy of D.o on thin paper. Malo, S.t A drawn Map of the Bay and Coast from Concalle to S.t Malo relative to the Expedition under the Duke of Marlborough in June 1758: inclosing two copies of D.o on thin paper.
Subject(s)
Cancale, Brittany, France (48°40'33"N 01°51'08"W)
Saint-Malo, Brittany, France (48°39'00"N 02°01'00"W)
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