War of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)
Includes much of the mapping collected by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as Captain General of the British army
Map of the Battle of Dettingen, 1743 (Dettingen am Main, Bavaria, Germany) 50°02'29"N 09°02'00"E
1743 or laterEngraving and etching; printed on paper | Scale: 1:48,500 approx. | RCIN 728100
The map covers the banks of the Main from Seligenstadt (50°02'35"N 08°58'26"E) in the north-west to Aschaffenburg (49°58'37"N 09°09'07"E) in the south-east.
Another copy of this map, which does not appear to have been part of the original K.Mil. collection, is at RCIN 712518.
The Battle of Dettingen, in which the British defeated the French, was the last in which a British Monarch (George II, 1683-1760) took part, and the first in which William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, the King's third son, saw active service. Cumberland received a serious wound in the calf which was to trouble him for the rest of his life: a shot had left a hole ‘as big as a hen's egg and the extremities of some of the muscle which it had torn asunder in its passage were quite drove out of the wound’.
Additional text: [top right, in rectangular frame, an alphabetical key, A-I, K-S, to the positions of the British, Austrian, and Hanoverian camps and artillery, baggage, order of battle, etc., and to the French batteries and troop movements:] RENVOY.
Condition: one fold line; faint brown discolouration.
George Louis le Rouge (1707-93/4) (cartographer and publisher) [below title:] A PARIS / Chez le Sieur le Rouge Geographe du Roi / rue des Augustins vis a vis le panier fleuri
Subject(s)
Army-GBArmy-AustriaArmy-HanoverArmy-FranceArmy-Allied army (War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48)Watermark: Indistinct: three lines of letters/names?
Condition: one fold line; faint brown discolouration
Scale: 1:48,500 approx. Scale bar: Une Lieue d’une heure de Chemin [137 mm =].
25.4 x 33.5 cm (neatline)
25.8 x 34.3 cm (image)
27.0 x 34.9 cm (platemark)
29.6 x 40.5 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
COMBAT / DE DETTINGEN / Du 27. Juin 1743. / Entre les Alliés de l’Empereur et / de la Reine d’Hongrie [bottom left, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
RENVOY. [top right, in rectangular frame, an alphabetical key, A-I, K-S, to the positions of the British, Austrian, and Hanoverian camps and artillery, baggage, order of battle, etc., and to the French batteries and troop movements]
Annotations:
George III heading: Battle of Dettingen 27 June 1743.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil:] 37; [top right, black pencil:] 29. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil:] 13; [bottom right, black pencil:] 27 June 1743.
George III catalogue entry:
Dettingen Plan du Combat de Dettingen du 27 Juin 1743, entre les Alliés de l'Empereur et de la Reine d'Hongrie: chez le Rouge.
Subject(s)
Dettingen am Main, Bavaria, Germany (50°02'29"N 09°02'00"E)
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