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For the military historian, war-gamer or re-enactment enthusiast
whose main sphere of interest is the period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Wars, we have a very comprehensive series of maps taken from the Atlas accompanying
Alison’s History of Europe.
Published in 1850, these splendidly detailed steel engravings, which
cover every major engagement from Jemappes in 1794 to Waterloo in 1815, provide
a superb reference. The image below is a section from the map of the Battle of Austerlitz
(1805).
In addition, we have a nice engraving of the Storming of San Sebastian
and a plan and elevation of Badajoz on our Miscellanea page.
For those whose interests lie in the warfare of a century earlier, and particularly in the work of Vauban, the great master of military fortification, we have eight large maps reproduced from originals in Tindall’s Continuation
of Rapin’s History of England; published c. 1750, these superb copper engravings
show the spectacular and intricate fortifications of some of the great barrier
fortresses of Flanders—Ath, Bethune, Douai, Lille, Menin, Namur, Tournai
and Ypres—in exquisite detail. Below is a detail showing the siege of Tournai
by Marlborough and Prince Eugene’s army. More samples may be viewed on the
Rapin’s page.
Our Miscellanea selection remains very small at the moment, but
we are trying to expand it, and have added a very nice German plan and elevation
of Badajoz, approximately contemporary to our Alison’s map of the city, to
which it makes a good companion.
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