MAP/BATTLE PLAN GUADELOUPE OPERATIONS JAN - FEB 1810 HARCOURT SAINTS APRIL 1809
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A beautiful ANTIQUE map on fine quality paper EXCELLENT condition and rescued from a disbound book: Taken from: Maps & Plans illustratingFortescue's HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY Volume VII ~ 1912 SUPERB DETAIL THIS FOLD-OUT HISTORICAL MAP IS AN ORIGINAL ~ APPROXIMATELY 100 YEARS OLD AND NOT A REPRODUCTION This map including borders measures approximately 630mm x 210mm Printed on fine quality paper Free from any text on the reverse A superb map in excellent DAMAGE FREE condition ~ N o foxing or spotting ~ FORTESCUE, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (1859-1933), military historian, was born in Madeira 28th December 1859, the fifth son of Hugh Fortescue, third Earl Fortescue, by his wife, Georgiana Augusta Charlotte Caroline, eldest daughter of Colonel George Lionel Dawson-Damer, third son of John Dawson-Damer, first Earl of Portarlington. He was descended from Chief Justice Sir John Fortescue [q.v.] Brought up in country surroundings at Castle Hill, near Barnstaple, he developed a great love of country life and pursuits with a countryman's eye for ground, which stood him in good stead in explaining the battlefields which he described. He was educated at Harrow under H. M. Butler, to whose love of English literature he owed much. Short sight curtailed his athletic activities, besides debarring him from a military career; he therefore entered Trinity
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