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George III's Military Maps

A map of the Allied and French encampments and marches along the Rhine between 27 April and 27 July 1710. War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). Oriented with north to top. 
The map covers an area extending along the Rhine from Ketsch (49°22'04

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Map of the Rhine, 1710 ©
A map, printed on silk, of the Battle of Wilhelmsthal, fought on 24 June 1762 between the Allied army (British, Prussian, Hessian and Brunswickian troops) under the command of Field Marshal Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1

Map of the Battle of Wilhelmsthal, 1762 (Wilhelmsthal, Hesse, Germany) 51°24'00"N 09°25'00"E ©

The ‘King's Military Maps’ collection (usually abbreviated to ‘K.Mil.’) is a unique assemblage of more than 4,000 maps, plans and views of military and naval engagements from the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century. The material is both manuscript and printed, from fortification plans and maps of sieges, battles and route marches, through to rough operational field sketches compiled by military surveyors and draughtsmen, occasionally with accompanying manuscript journals.

The collection provides a contemporary account of primarily British involvement in theatres of war across the world, especially during the eighteenth century. There are particularly strong holdings of maps relating to the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48), the Jacobite Rebellion (1745-6), the Seven Years’ War (1756-63), the American War of Independence (1775-83), and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815).

Jacob van der Schley (1715–79) after Friedrich Wilhelm von Bauer (1731–83)

The Battle of Wilhelmsthal

Robert Scot (fl. 1782) after Sebastian Bauman (fl. 1776–83)

The Battle of Yorktown