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Gibraltar-lattre-1762
$950.00
Title
Plan du Promontoire de la Ville et du Port de Gibraltar avec les Ouvrages Faits Depuis le Dernier Siege et les Lignes Construites par Ordre de Sa Majesté très Catholique, pour Empescher la Communication de Gibraltar avec l Espagne.
  1762 (undated)    
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Description
This is a scarce, separately-issued c. 1770 Jean Lattré map of the town, port and peninsula of Gibraltar. This eastern-oriented map is richly detailed, showing the remarkable and forbidding topography of the peninsula and its fortifications. The map shows the positions held by the Spanish and the British during their long stalemate following the 1727 Spanish siege of Gibraltar. Lattré appears to have produced this map as a separate issue near the end of the Seven Years War (1756 - 1763), coinciding with Spain s entrance to that conflict. Although the war ended without any action at Gibraltar, it would have been consid ....

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