Catalogue description Ottoman Empire: Bulgaria. Shipka Pass. 5 sheets of maps and plans. (3) MS tracing of a...

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Details of MFQ 1/857/3-7
Reference: MFQ 1/857/3-7
Description:

Ottoman Empire: Bulgaria. Shipka Pass. 5 sheets of maps and plans. (3) MS tracing of a plan of the area north of Saint Nicholas's rock, with information about the fighting [between the Turks and the Bulgarians and their allies]. (4-6) 3 MS sketch maps, on tracing paper, showing the terrain and key positions; these seem to note corrections to item 7. (7) 'General attack on the Russian positions in the Shipka Pass, August 24, showing both sides of the Turkish advance': printed sketch map, cut from an Extra Supplement to the Illustrated London News, 29 September 1877. Sheet sizes between 17 cm x 30 cm and 39 cm x 37 cm. Items 4-6 originally accompanying despatch number 30 from Captain J L Fife, Military Attache, Constantinople (now Istanbul), to A H Layard, 26 November 1877.
Date: 1877
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 784 (item 3 only).

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