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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-7004
File Name:
C-7004-000
Call number:
Z M294 1806 3-SIZE
Map title:
[Map 1] Sketch of the country from reduction to Buenos Ayres, shewing the movements of B. Genl. Beresford, when he captured that place June 1806. Drawn from memorandums furnished by Capt: Donnelly
Place of Publication:
S.l.
Publication date:
1808
Map size height:
25 cm.
Map size width:
33 cm
Item description:
Manuscript map, colored
Geographical description:
Plan of Buenos Aires in present day Argentina showing the surrounding country. Includes an index of lettered reference points on the lower right side of the map. Map signed at lower right hand corner: A.B. Decr. 11. 1808. "Statement of force under Genl. Beresford", at lower left hand side of map gives the numbers and organization of the troops. Bar scale given in English miles. Relief shown pictorially. Depth indicated by soundings. Oriented with north to the right.
Source title:
[Manuscript maps for the South American campaigns of 1806-7]
Source place:
[Buenos Aires, 1806-1808]
Cartobibliographic notes:
Appears as first map, mounted on paper, in the atlas factice titled [Manuscript maps for the South American campaigns of 1806-7], 1806-1808. Atlas consists of 24 maps and 4 views of the South American campaign of the British invasions of Rio de la Plata, part of the Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. The campaign lasted from 1806 to 1807, during which time General Beresford attacked Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Maldonado, and Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, and Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco, Brazil, all without authorization from the British crown.
Geographic Area:
South America
Historical notes:
Map detailing troop movements in the South American campaign of the British invasions of Rio de la Plata, part of the Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. The campaign lasted from 1806 to 1807, during which time General Beresford attacked Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Maldonado, and Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, and Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco, Brazil, all without authorization from the British crown. Maps in this atlas, except for one, detail General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford's campaign in South America.
Normalized date:
1808
LC bibliographic number:
b62550512
Creator:
Donnelly, Ross 1761?-1840

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[Map 1] Sketch of the country from reduction to Buenos Ayres, shewing the movements of B. Genl. Beresford, when he captured that place June 1806. Drawn from memorandums furnished by Capt: Donnelly