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
Encampment at Drongen, 1744
Plan du / Campement de L'Aile / Droite à L'Abbaye de / Drongen le 15.e Octobre / N:S: 1744
1744 or laterPencil, pen, ink and watercolour on paper; laid down on paper | Scale: not stated. 1:26,300 approx. | RCIN 729057
In the same hand as RCINs 729011-12, 729014, 729017, 729020-22, 729030, 729037-8, 729047-56, 729058. Another copy of this map, in the same hand, is at RCIN 729058.
The right wing of the Allied army comprised British and Hanoverian troops, coloured here in red and yellow, respectively. The march from Deinze to Drongen was about 11 km (6.8 miles). The camp extended for a distance of about 4 km (2.5 miles) from Mariekircke (Mariakerke, now in the suburbs of Ghent, 51°04'29"N 03°40'58"E) in the north, to Drongen in the south.
Condition: no fold lines.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Watermark: Map: IV. Backing paper, cropped: crown above shield [possibly with a fleur-de-lys?].
Mark, stamped: 403
Condition: no fold lines
Scale: not stated. 1:26,300 approx.
20.3 x 23.6 cm (neatline)
21.2 x 24.4 cm (image)
22.0 x 25.2 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Plan du / Campement de L'Aile / Droite à L'Abbaye de / Drongen le 15.e Octobre / N:S: 1744. [top right, in rectangular panel]
Annotations:
George III heading: Encampment at Drongen 15 Oct.r 1744.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, black pencil, cropped and illegible: a number?]; [top right, black pencil:] 11. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil, obscured by paper backing:] 47.
George III catalogue entry:
Drongen Plan dessiné du Campement de l’Aisle droite de l'Armée Alliée a l'Abbaye de Drongen, le 15 Oct.re 1744. [The same entry appears under the heading Encampment.]
Subject(s)
Drongen, Flanders, Belgium (51°03'02"N 03°39'23"E)
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