Carte du Pouldu avec ses environs et la côte de la mer : ou on y voit la disposition de nos batteries, et corps de garde, avec l'endroit ou les Anglois, ont faits leur descente, le premier octobre mil sept cent quarente six, dans l'esperance ou ils estoient de se rendre maistres de l'Orient et par

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Carte du Pouldu avec ses environs et la côte de la mer : ou on y voit la disposition de nos batteries, et corps de garde, avec l'endroit ou les Anglois, ont faits leur descente, le premier octobre mil sept cent quarente six, dans l'esperance ou ils estoient de se rendre maistres de l'Orient et par cette conqueste, s'emparer de la Bretagne ; mais ou ils ont perdûs leurs peines. [1747]

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Identifes military sites important during the British retreat from Pouldu, France in 1746. The combined naval and army campaign against Brittany, led by vice admiral Richard Lestock, failed to capture the Compagnie des Indes dockyard in nearby Lorient (not shown on map). Keyed to references A-Z and AA. From French army officer Dumont de Montigny's 1747 manuscript memoire of his experiences in Louisiana between 1715-1737 (Ayer MS 257).

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 223 x 390 mm.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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