[NAVAL CHRONICLE.]
The Naval Chronicle: or, voyages, travels, expeditions, remarkable exploits and achievements, of the most celebrated English Navigators, Travellers, And Sea-Commanders, from the earliest accounts to the end of the year 1759 ...
[NAVAL CHRONICLE.]
The Naval Chronicle: or, voyages, travels, expeditions, remarkable exploits and achievements, of the most celebrated English Navigators, Travellers, And Sea-Commanders, from the earliest accounts to the end of the year 1759 ...
The maps include a map of world, Europe, the Channel Islands and Martinique. The most interesting are the maps of the siege of Quebec, and draught of Basque Roads in 1757, compiled to illustrate the court-martial of General Sir John Mordaunt, following the failure of a joint services amphibious assault on the French dockyard of Rochefort, when his dilatory behaviour caused the attack to fail.
This example contains a rare English geological map of North America, first prepared for the Literary Magazine (1756) – “A Map of North America shewing the Places where the metals, minerals, fossils and medicinal-waters are to be found.”
