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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-7028
File Name:
C-7028-000
Call number:
Z M294 1806 3-SIZE
Map title:
[Map 21] [Plan of Buenos Aires, Argentina]
Place of Publication:
S.l.
Publication date:
1808
Map size height:
38 cm.
Map size width:
30 cm.
Item description:
Manuscript map, colored
Geographical description:
Plan of Buenos Aires in present day Argentina . Relief shown pictorially. Title of map in Spanish and points of reference in English. Map has lettered index showng the location of military barracks, officers' quarters, arsenals, and points of interest such as churches; at lower left hand corner there is the projected site for a canal. Bar scale given in English miles. Place names on map given in English and Spanish. 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 twenty-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 one, detail General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford's campaign in South America.
Scale 1:
ca. 20,500
Normalized date:
1808
LC bibliographic number:
b6255072x

[Map 21] [Plan of Buenos Aires, Argentina]

     
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[Map 21] [Plan of Buenos Aires, Argentina]