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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

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Encampment at Berleghem, 1744

Campement des Troupes Brittan= / niques & Hannoveriennes à / Beirleghem 2.me Juin 1744

1744 or later

Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; some pricking through | Scale: 1:15,600 approx. | RCIN 729017

A map of the British and Hanoverian encampment at Berleghem, June 1744. War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Oriented with south-east to top. In the same hand as RCINs 729011, 729012, 729014, 729020-22, 729030, 729037-8, 729047-58.

The regiments are not named; the units are coloured according to nationality: British (red), Hanoverian (yellow).

Additional text: [top right, below title, in title panel, a key, A-I, K, L, to places and dispositions of the British and Hanoverian troops and artillery:] Explication des Lettres de ce / Plan.

Condition: seven fold lines; formerly folded to 11.9 x 7.0 cm. Verso: induced discolouration.
  • Anonymous (cartographer)

  • Watermark: Pro Patria; countermark: GR

    Mark, stamped: 364

    Condition: seven fold lines; formerly folded to 11.9 x 7.0 cm. Verso: induced discolouration

  • Scale: 1:15,600 approx. Scale bar: Echelle de 1500 Pas commúns [78 mm =].

    24.6 x 35.5 cm (image and neatline)

    31.3 x 40.2 cm (sheet)

  • Manuscript title:

    Campement des Troupes Brittan= / niques & Hannoveriennes à / Beirleghem 2.me Juin 1744. [top right, in rectangular panel]

    Additional text:

    Explication des Lettres de ce / Plan. [top right, below title, in title panel, a key, A-I, K, L, to places and dispositions of the British and Hanoverian troops and artillery]

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Encampment at Berleghem 2 June 1744.

    Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom right, red pencil:] 8/25; [bottom right, black pencil, erased:] IX/[?].

    George III catalogue entry:

    Berleghem Plan dessiné du Campement des Troupes Britanniques et Hannoveriennes a Berleghem, le 2 Juin 1744.

  • Subject(s)

    Beerlegem, Flanders, Belgium (50°54'21"N 03°43'01"E)

Page revisions

  • 14 March 2024