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, ink, and watercolour on paper | Scale: no scale given. 1:66,000 approx. | RCIN 728096
The map covers the banks of the Main from Gross Klotzen (Großkrotzenburg 50°05'00"N 08°59'00"E) in the north-west to Oberau (49°56'13"N 09°07'54"E) in the south-east. March routes are shown.
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: [top, left and right of title, in extensions of title cartouche, a key, a-i, k-n to the HQ of George II, the camps, batteries, field fortifications, pontoon bridges, etc., of the Allied army:] Explication der Buchstaben; [bottom right, in a cartouche, numbers of the strength of each army:] EXTRACT / Des Verlüsts dieser Bataille.
Condition: two fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration.
Georg Josua du Plat (1722-95) (surveyor and draughtsman) [top centre, below title and text:] dessiné au point de vüe / par. G: J: Du Plat.; [bottom right, inside neatline:] Du Plat Adjoudant du Regiment / de [rars]: le Cóllonell de Borch.
Subject(s)
Army-GBArmy-AustriaArmy-HanoverArmy-FranceGeorge II, King of Great Britain (1683-1760)Army-Allied army (War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48)Watermark: Fleur-de-lys
Mark, stamped: 323
Condition: two fold lines. Verso: induced discolouration
Scale: no scale given. 1:66,000 approx.
18.6 x 29.5 cm (image and neatline)
21.7 x 32.9 cm (sheet)
Manuscript title:
PLAN / Der Bataille bey Detlingen So [?] 27ten Juny. 1743 / Zwischen der Alliirten und Frantzöschen Armée / gehalten worden. [top centre, in ornamental cartouche embellished with the artefacts of war]
Additional text:
Explication der Buchstaben [top, left and right of title, in extensions of title cartouche, a key, a-i, k-n to the HQ of George II, the camps, batteries, field fortifications, pontoon bridges, etc., of the Allied army]; EXTRACT / Des Verlüsts dieser Bataille. [bottom right, in a cartouche, numbers of the strength of each army]
Annotations:
George III heading: Battle of Dettingen 27 June 1743.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom right, red pencil:] 7/69 [the ‘69’ is struck out in black pencil.].
George III catalogue entry:
Dettingen Plan der Bataille bey Dettingen so den 27 Juny 1743 zwischen der Allurten und Frantzoschen Armée gehalten worden: von G.I. du Plat. drawn.
Subject(s)
Dettingen am Main, Bavaria, Germany (50°02'29"N 09°02'00"E)
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