Plan of encampment at Chatham, 1762 (Chatham, Kent, UK) 51°22'44"N 00°31'40"E

A plan of encampment at Chatham, 1762. Seven Years War (1756-63). Oriented with south-east to top.

The facing page (RCIN 731068.r) lists the encamped regiments. The camp took place in exactly the same location in each year from 1756 to 1762, the duration of the Seven Years War for England. In 1756, from 19 June to 12 October, the encamped regiments, under the command of Major-General Lord George Sackville, were: 5^th Bentinck's; 25^th Homes's; 30^th Loudon's; 36^th Lord Robert Manners's; and 37^th Stewart's. In 1757 the encamped regiments, from 27 June to 25 September, under the command of Major-General Lord George Sackville, were: 23^rd Royal Wesh Fuziliers; 25^th Homes's; 50^th Hodgson's; 51^st Brudenell's. In 1758, from 28 June to 7 November, the encamped regiments, under the command of the Earl of Panmure, were: 37^th Stewart's; 58^th Armiger's; 61^st G. Grey's. In 1759 from 15 June to 7 November the encamped regiments, under the command of Lieutenant-General Campbell, were: 30^th Loudon's; 36^th Lord Robert Manners's; 50^th Hodgson's; 11^th Bocland's. In 1760 the encamped regiments, under the command of Major-General Carr, were: 9^th Whitmore's; 61^st G. Grey's. In 1761 the encamped regiments under the command of Lieutenant-General Kingsley, were: Cheshire, and Huntingdonshire. In 1762, the encamped regiments under the command of Lieutenant-General Kingsley, were 21^st Panmure's; Cornish; Dorsetshire.

BL Add MS 15532: [f.23, numbered, top right, black pencil:] 23. 'PLAN of HIS MAJESTY'S DOCK YARD at CHATHAM with the LINES &C^a May 1756'. Scale: 1:4,417. Scale bar: [69 mm =] 1000 Feet. Watermark: none visible. Size: 41.2 x 56.2 cm (image). [Text on facing page, numbered, top right of verso, black pencil:] 22. 'Encampments at Chatham / 1756. Watermark: JWHATMAN. Size: 32.6 x 34.5 cm (image). This seems to be a larger-scale plan than the K.Mil copy; it is deeper than the volume, and folds in at the top; the title is slightly different; the Add MS copy has pencil annotations, perhaps relating to a later encampment.

In: Plans of the Encampments in South Britain from the Year 1756 to the Year 1762. See main entry under RCIN 731068.

Condition: flat, no fold lines.