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000872126 24500 $$aBritish Library :$$bMinistry of Defense maps.
000872126 264_1 $$a[Place of publication not identified] :$$b[publisher not identified],$$c1840-1935.
000872126 300__ $$a1 online resource (272 manuscripts, 1,278 maps) :$$bmaps (some color).
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000872126 4901_ $$aNineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
000872126 500__ $$aDate range of documents: 1840-1935.
000872126 500__ $$aReproduction of the originals from the British Library.
000872126 500__ $$aImages from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.
000872126 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized
000872126 520__ $$aIn 1853, Basil Jackson, a graduate of the British Royal Military College who had served twenty years as a field engineer and taught military surveying at the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe, published the fourth edition of his Treatise on Military Surveying. "Military surveying," he said, is the "art of describing the face of country with reference to its capacity for warlike operations." In general, he argued, "it should abound in details, and be extremely minute and particular respecting mountains and their passes; points at which a river or morass may be crossed; localities offering military positions; nature of forests, " (p. 1). The sections of his book summarize the instruments and methods available to mid-century military mapping: "On Military Sketching with the Prismatic Compass," "On Surveying with the Theodolite," "On Levelling," "Military Reconnoissance [sic]," and "Tables for Computing Altitudes, from Observations with the Mountain Barometer." Reflecting the already extensive global responsibilities of the British military, he noted that it mattered not whether the war was to be fought in a "semi-barbarous country" or in Europe, where there were to be found authoritative maps and statistical reports: in either case, a particular knowledge would have to be acquired on the ground through military reconnaissance. Such reconnaissance necessarily included places where combatants could ford rivers, move artillery over bridges, avoid unsurpassable obstacles, anticipate fortifications, commandeer the heights, secure food and water, find lumber for construction, and so on. The maps accumulated by the Ministry of Defence and selected for this cartographic survey of the long nineteenth century include maps and plans created by the most sophisticated cartographers with the greatest corporate and governmental institutional support and hand-drawn sketches rapidly drafted in secret in preparation for combat. They will be of great interest to scholars tracing the development of skills in the accuracy and conventions of topographical mapmaking, to students of the major conflicts in which Britain was engaged between 1780 and the end of the First World War, and to those mainly interested in the relationship of mapmaking to national and ethnic identity formation.
000872126 61010 $$aGreat Britain.$$bMinistry of Defence.
000872126 650_0 $$aMilitary maps.
000872126 651_0 $$aGreat Britain$$xColonies$$vMaps.
000872126 651_0 $$aGreat Britain$$vMaps.
000872126 830_0 $$aNineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
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