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Catalogue description (9) 'Sketch Map shewing the Boundaries of France according to the Treaties of 30th May...
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| Reference: | WO 78/1037/1-9 |
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| Description: |
(9) 'Sketch Map shewing the Boundaries of France according to the Treaties of 30th May 1814 & 20th Novr. 1815': map of north-western France and neighbouring countries (territories now in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany) between Dunkirk (Dunkerque) in the north-west and Strasbourg in the south-east, also showing the frontier as it existed in 1790 and 1792. Reference table to boundaries; note on sources used in compiling the map. Signed by Lieutenant Colonel A C Cooke, Royal Engineers, 27 August 1866. Relevant extracts from printed copies of both the 1814 and 1815 Treaties of Paris are affixed to the face of the map. (1-8) Eight outline tracings, showing various parts of the French frontier: (1) between Dunkirk and Nice; (3) between Nantua and Nice; (4) between Dunkirk and Landau in der Pfalz; (8) between the River Rhine and Nice. Items (2, 5-7) are smaller scraps and sketches. Item (1) traced from an original map in a private letter from Lord Castlereagh [to Lord Liverpool], 23 May 1814. |
| Date: | 1866 |
| Related material: |
For the map from which item (1) was traced, see MPK 1/300 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | France/General/23 |
| Former reference in The National Archives: | MPH 123A |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 50 cm x 64 cm |
| Physical condition: | MS, coloured, on tracing paper |
| 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 984 |
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