Detail View: JCB Map Collection: A Plan of the Route of the British Army against the City of Santo Domingo, which surrendered on the 6th July 1809, ...
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Accession Number:
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05751
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File Name:
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05751-1
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Call number:
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D810 W241p
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Map title:
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A Plan of the Route of the British Army against the City of Santo Domingo, which surrendered on the 6th July 1809, ...
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Place of Publication:
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[London]
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Publisher:
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[Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown]
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Publication date:
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[1810]
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Map size height:
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20.1 cm.
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Map size width:
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61 cm.
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Item description:
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fold-out engraved map; vol. 1, frontispiece
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Geographical description:
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Map of the southeast coast of Santo Domingo, present-day Dominican Republic, especially the area around the city of Santo Domingo. Cartographic elements include topographical features and their names, names of bodies of water and settlements, notations about the movement of troops. Items are numbered for identification in key at right of image. Includes inset of plan of city of Santo Domingo.
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Source author:
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Walton, William, 1784-1857
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Source title:
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Present state of the Spanish colonies; including a particular report of Hispañola, or the Spanish part of Santo Domingo; ...
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Source place:
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London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1810
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Geographic Area:
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Caribbean
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Historical notes:
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As part of its war against France, the English laid siege to Santo Domingo in 1808, and it surrendered in July of 1809. The harbor was then blockaded, and this effectively ended French control.Engraver is probably Wilson Lowry, 1762-1824.
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Normalized date:
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1810
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Creator:
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William Walton
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Creator:
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W. Lowry
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