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
Battle of Dettingen, 1743
PLAN / Von der Situation und dem Lager der Alliirten Armée bey Aschaffenburg, item von der den 27. Junii. / 1743. zwischen derselben und der Frantzösischen vorgefallenen Action bey Dettingen
1743 or laterPen, ink and watercolour on paper | Scale: 1:48,400 approx. | RCIN 728098
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’.
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.
Additional text: [bottom left, below title, a numerical key, I-XIV, to the positions of the British, Hanoverian and Austrian, and French camps and artillery and the movements during the battle.]
Condition: four fold lines; formerly folded to 15.1 x 10.3 cm; worn along folds. Verso: induced discolouration.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: C & I HONIG [and] PRO PATRIA
Mark, stamped: 325
Condition: four fold lines; formerly folded to 15.1 x 10.3 cm; worn along folds. Verso: induced discolouration
Scale: 1:48,400 approx. Scale bar: Maastab von Einer Stunde. [140 mm =].
29.2 x 37.3 cm (image and neatline)
30.6 x 38.5 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / Von der Situation und dem Lager der Alliirten Armée bey Aschaffenburg, item von der den 27. Junii. / 1743. zwischen derselben und der Frantzösischen vorgefallenen Action bey Dettingen. [bottom left, in rectangular panel]
Additional text:
[bottom left, below title, a numerical key, I-XIV, to the positions of the British, Hanoverian and Austrian, and French camps and artillery and the movements during the battle.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Battle of Dettingen 27 June 1743.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom right, cropped, red pencil:] 7/[?]; [black pencil, cropped:] IX/[?].
George III catalogue entry:
Dettingen Plan von der Situation und dem Lager der Allurten Armée bey Aschaffenburg, item von der den 27 Junii 1743 zwischen derselben und der Frantzosischen vorgefallenen Action bey Dettingen. drawn.
Subject(s)
Dettingen am Main, Bavaria, Germany (50°02'29"N 09°02'00"E)
Page revisions
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