This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.Visit the Royal CollectionThe Maps Search the maps in King George's military collectionOr browse the maps, arranged by conflict, below: Collection storyOttoman-Habsburg Wars (1521-1791) Images from eight wars fought between 1570 and 1718Collection storyEighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence) (1568-1648)Contemporary prints and maps of the battles and sieges of the Eighty Years WarCollection storyThirty Years War (1618-48)Maps, prints and letterpress text covering the major battles and sieges of the warCollection storyFranco-Spanish War (1635-59)Contemporary maps and prints of the major battles and sieges from 1635 to 1658Collection storyWar of the Spanish Succession (1701-14)Sieges, marches, encampments and famous battles from 1701 to 1712 in Germany, Italy and the NetherlandsCollection storyWar of the Polish Succession (1733-8)The Rhine and Moselle rivers and parts of ItalyCollection storyRusso-Turkish WarsThe wars of 1735–9, 1768–74 and 1787–92Collection storyWar of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)Includes much of the mapping collected by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as Captain General of the British armyCollection storyThe Seven Years War (1756-63)Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global warCollection storyAmerican War of Independence (1775-83)George III’s maps and views showing the development of the war at home and abroad, from North America to IndiaCollection storyFrench Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)Maps and prints of naval engagements collected by George III during the decade of warCollection storyNapoleonic Wars (1803-15)Views of naval engagements and maps of battlesCollection storyOther 16th-century conflictsContemporary maps of 10 sixteenth-century warsCollection storyOther 17th-century conflictsPrinted and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century warsCollection storyOther 18th-/19th-century conflictsMaps, views and documents from 19 warsCollection storyMiscellaneousMaps, views and diagrams of military reviews and encampments
