Twelve of the most remarkable sieges and battles in Europe [graphic].
Published / Created:
[London] : Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Title from top margin of print 1.
Contents:
1. Views, representing the most considerable transactions in the siege of a place -- 2. Of making Sallies, and the method of repulsing them -- 3. An attack and lodgement on the covert way -- 4. The attack of two bastions, at breaches made by springing mines -- 5. A general assault -- 6. The place taken by storm and plunder'd -- 7. The expedition against Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, 1745 -- 8. The Battle of Culloden, near Inverness in Scotland, 16th April 1746 -- 9. The Battle of Lowoschutz in Bohemia, 1st October 1756 -- 10. The Battle of Prague in Bohemia, 6th May 1757 -- 11. The Battle of Newark in Silesia, 5th December, 1757 -- 12. The Battle of Minden in Westphalia, 1st August 1759.
Subject Terms:
Battles -- Europe -- Pictorial works. | Battlefields -- Europe -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. | Soldiers -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. | Fortification -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. | Forts & fortifications. | Campaigns & battles.