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    List of encampments

    1757 or later

    Pen and ink on paper | 32.1 x 40.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 732201.ak

    A loose sheet of paper, slipped into the back of RCIN 732201, on which is written in ink, in an eighteenth-century hand:

    Affurden Camp July 12th 1757
    Hastenbeck - - the 24
    Hastenbeck - - the 25
    Hastenbeck - - the 26th 
    Vesden Camp August – 8th 
    Town of Verden
    Stade Camps - - Sepr– 10
    Two ways to pass the defily [sic] of Hagenau 
    Bremervorde Camp
    Selsingen Camp

    • Anonymous (author)

    • Watermark: Pro Patria; countermark: GR, crown above

      Condition: one fold line

    • 32.1 x 40.8 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Manuscript title:

      None

      Annotations:

      None

      George III catalogue entry:

      Encampment La Campagne 1757 de l’Armée de Sa Majesté Britannique en Allemagne: par le Lieut. Col. G.J. du Plat. MS. Fol.

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