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 laterPencil, pen, black and red ink on paper; laid down on coarse linen | Scale: not stated. 1:48,400 approx. | RCIN 728099
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.
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: [bottom left, below title, also in almost illegible black pencil, a key A-H, J, to the military features on the map.]
Condition: verso: discoloured; water-stained patch from the removal of Cumberland’s cipher label.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GBArmy-AustriaArmy-HanoverArmy-FranceArmy-Allied army (War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48)Watermark: PRO PATRIA
Mark, stamped: 326
Condition: verso: discoloured; water-stained patch from the removal of Cumberland’s cipher label
Scale: not stated. 1:48,400 approx.
27.9 x 36.4 cm (image)
31.2 x 37.2 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
Plan / Der Situation das Lagers item die … Action bey dettingen von den Alÿrten Troupen … / dem frantzosen. [bottom left, in rectangular panel, in almost illegible and faint black pencil]
Additional text:
[bottom left, below title, also in almost illegible black pencil, a key A-H, J, to the military features on the map.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Battle of Dettingen 27 June 1743.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top right, black pencil:] 5/12. (Verso) [top right, obscured by linen backing, ink?:] Dettingen; [right, along edge, black pencil:] Dettingen June 16/17 1743; [bottom left, black pencil, obscured by linen backing:] 12?
George III catalogue entry:
Dettingen A rough Sketch of the same Plan [i.e. RCIN 728098]
Subject(s)
Dettingen am Main, Bavaria, Germany (50°02'29"N 09°02'00"E)
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