Catalogue description 1 item (enclosure to General Sir John Ligonier's despatch of 31 March 1744/45) extracted...

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Details of MPF 1/276
Reference: MPF 1/276
Description:

1 item (enclosure to General Sir John Ligonier's despatch of 31 March 1744/45) extracted from SP 87/16. Plan of the western fortifications at Ostend, Flanders (now in Belgium), showing a proposed canal and locks joining the sea to the 'Creque de S te Catherine' as a means of combatting the effect of shifting sand against the fortifications. Bastions named. Scale: 10.2 cm to 200 toises. The plan was accompanied by 'Reflexions sur l'inconvenient des Sables qui comblent les Fortifications de la Ville d'Ostende' (SP 87/16 folios 93-95). A draft letter of 26 March 1745 (old style) from the Earl of Harrington to Ligonier shows that he had 'laid the whole before the King'. The plan is annotated: 'Receiv'd with Lord Harrington's Lre to y e Mã Gen 1 dated 28 Mar. 1745'. The Master General of the day was the Duke of Montagu.
Date: 1745
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Dimensions: 42 cm x 25 cm
Map scale: 1:3836
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 658.

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