A PLAN OF LOUISBOUGH HARBOUR

Durell, Philip, -1766

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

1745

Scale approximately 1:9,500

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
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• United States--History--King George’s War, 1744-1748--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Louisbourg (N.S.)--History--Siege, 1745--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Louisbourg (N.S.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

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1 map: manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 52 x 74 cm

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• The title appears in a surround at the top of the sheet with "A Scale of one Mile" to 6 1/2 inches below.
• The Explanation at upper left comprises a lettered (A-N) and symbolic key identifying locations on the map, including the batteries, lighthouse and citadels. The explanation also numbers the guns and mortars.
• The map details the English batteries at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession and the siege of Louisbourg.
• Titled 'A drawn Plan of Louisbourg Harbour, by Captain Philip Durell, June 17th 1745' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
• Titled 'A colored "Plan of Louisbough (sic) Harbour, by Captain Philip Durell, June 17th, 1745;" drawn on a scale of 6 1/2 inches to a mile : 2 f. 4 in. x 1 f. 8 1/2 in.' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.