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Military Mapping |
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Anon.,
plan of Cartagena, c. 1697
As
the previous detail showed, arrowhead bastions had come during the sixteenth
century to supplement and eventually replace the old round towers. From this
time onwards, many plans were drawn to show these bastionned traces, as they
were constructed throughout the world. Generally these plans were drawn by the
engineers responsible for the works, but sometimes they were drawn by spies.
Our plan of Cartagena, drawn about 1700, was in the collection formed by
George Legge, a seventeenth-century English artilleryman, who was no doubt
interested in the defences of this Spanish stronghold. Our detail shows the care
with which various defensive features were numbered, with reference to a general
key of the town.
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