Map of encampment at Huise, 1744 (Huise, Flanders, Belgium) 50°54'02"N 03°35'27"E

A map of the encampment of the Allied army under the command of Duke d'Arenberg at Huise, 6 October 1744. War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). Oriented with west to top.

In the same hand as RCINs 729011-12, 729014, 729017, 729020-22, 729030, 729037-8, 729047-53, 729055-8.

A neater copy of this map, in the same hand, is at RCIN 729053. The Chateau de Huysse was to the north of Huise, west of Loseren (Lozer 50°55'16"N 03°34'02"E). This encampment extended in a semi-circle from Heurne north-east through Singhen (Zingem 50°54'14"N 03°39'11"E), north to Aspre (Asper 50°54'49"N 03°39'04"E) and west to Aweghem (Ouwegem 50°54'44"N 03°35'59"E). The regimental rectangles are coloured according to nationality: British (red), Hanoverian (yellow), Dutch (blue), Austrian (green).

This map appears to have been lying, at an angle, on top of another in this series, perhaps in a pile on a table and long enough for the ink from the bottom map to have become offset onto the verso of RCIN 729054. It could also have been lying loose in a portfolio; if so, Cumberland's ‘volumes’, as written on the cipher labels, would have been portfolios, as described in the lists of his library.

Condition: no fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration.