The Seven Years War (1756-63)
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Plan of Havana and Fort Morro, 1762 (Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba) 23°07'58"N 82°22'58"W; (Castillo del Morro, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba) 23°09'00"N 82°21'00"W
1762 or laterPencil, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:4,800. | RCIN 733055
This plan does not include the chain which was strung across the mouth of the harbour; firing lines are drawn from the batteries on the north-east shores to the forts on the other side, which are shown in outline.
Additional text: [top left, below title, in rectangular panel, a list of the numbers of guns, and their positions, employed in the defence of the harbour, and a key to the batteries deployed against them.]
Condition: ten fold lines; formerly folded to 9.5 x 20.3 cm; worn along folds. Verso: heavy surface dirt on outside fold panels.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Subject(s)
Royal NavyWatermark: Strasburg bend and lily, the letters L V G below; countermark: IV
Mark, stamped: 950
Condition: ten fold lines; formerly folded to 9.5 x 20.3 cm; worn along folds. Verso: heavy surface dirt on outside fold panels
Scale: 1:4,800. Scale bar: Scale of 400 Feet to an Inch.
43.3 x 53.6 cm (image and neatline)
45.0 x 55.4 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Sketch of the Entrance of the Harbour of Havanna / shewing the Number of Guns mounted for its Defence, and / the Battery’s design’d against them. 1762. [top right, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
[top left, below title, in rectangular panel, a list of the numbers of guns, and their positions, employed in the defence of the harbour, and a key to the batteries deployed against them.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Havana 1762.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom, left of centre, ink:] VIII/72; [bottom, right of centre, black pencil, erased:] XVII/[?]6-b.
George III catalogue entry:
Havana A drawn Plan of the entrance of the Harbour of Havana, shewing the number of guns mounted for its defence and the Batteries designed against them, 1762.
Subject(s)
Havana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba (23°07'58"N 82°22'58"W)
Castillo del Morro, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba (23°09'00"N 82°21'00"W)
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