Catalogue description Flandre Campagne de Stenkerque 1692

Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) and France. Volume of maps and plans bound in red leather with an ornamental gold border and the arms of Noailles on the front and back covers. The documents relate to the Battle of Steenkerque (Steenkerke), resulting in the victory of French forces under [François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville], Duke of Luxembourg, over Allied forces under William of Orange [King William III of England and William II of Scotland], part of the War of the Grand Alliance. Title page: 'Camps et Ordres de Marches de l'Armée du Roy en Flandres Commandée par Monseigneur le Marechal Duc de Luxembourg. En l'Année 1692': title on a tablet surmounted by an eagle and surrounded by military equipment and fallen drapery. Table of contents listing the maps; reference table to colouring. 17 maps of various parts of the region showing troop movements at different stages during the campaign and the locations of camps at: Acosse, Ath (or Aat), Bassilly, Bosquet, Estinnes, 'Falise' [?Fallais], Feluy, Gembloux, Givry, Harelbeke, Hemptinne, Hoves, Kortrijk (or Courtrai), Lessines (or Lessen), Longchamps, Marbais, Mazy, 'Mierbe Potterie' [?Merbes-le-Château], Moustrier-sur-Sambre, Piéton, Pottes, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Saint-Gérard, Soignies (or Zinnik), Thuillies and Ville-sur-Haisne. Scale: 6 cm to 1 French common league. Compass stars. The volume also contains 20 orders of march, an order of battle, two maps of Namur (or Namen) showing it under siege, and a map showing forage quarters sited in the castellany of Ath, with a reference table and a related order. Surveyed and drawn by Pennier, Geographer and Engineer to the French king. The name 'Dr Wm Muller' is inscribed inside the volume; this is probably Wilhelm Müller, instructor of military science at the University of Göttingen, c1797-1806, and afterwards (as Sir William Müller) an officer in the British army.

For eight items (numbers 1, 16, 29, 33-35, 41 and 47 in the table of contents) extracted from this volume, see MPH 1/18

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 460. For further discussion of these and related maps, and the identification of the arms, see Claire Lemoine-Isabeau, Les militaires et la cartographie des Pays-Bas meridionaux (Brussels, 1984), 79