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THE WOODEN WALLS 13 Uncommon Contemporary American Plan Of The Battle TANNER, Benjamin. 'DISPOSITION of the ENGLISH & FRENCH FLEETS at the Commencement of the Action August 1.st 1798.' 'Tanner sc.' 'New York Published by John Low for Payne's Geography.' New York: John Low, [1800]; copperplate engraving, in black and white. Evidence of the old folds, two small spots, but a good example. Extracted from John Payne's 'A New and Complete System of Universal Geography; describing Asia, Africa, Europe and America ...', 1800. The map first appeared in John Remney's 'An Account of the Present State of Egypt', with the imprint of John Reid, dated 1799. This second state has John Low's imprint substituted. This is a detailed plan of the battle, and has an attractive inset profile of 'Bokier Castle'. £350 14 Uncommon French Plan Depicting Four Phases Of The Battle TARDIEU, Ambroise. 'PLAN DU COMBAT NAVAL DE TRAFALGAR.' 'Dessiné et Gravé par AMBROISE TARDIEU Graveur du Dépot G.d des Cartes de la Marine. A Paris rue du Battoir S.t André N.o 12.' 'Campagne de 1805.' Paris: [Treuttel & Wurtz?], Paris, [ca. 1817 ?]; copperplate engraving, B: 462 x 369 W: 468 x 369mm, and black and white. Centrefold visible, but no evidence of the sheet having being bound, the paper uncut. From: le General Comte Mathieu Dumas 'Précis Des Evenemens Militaires. Receuil de Plans et Cartes, pour servir a l'intelligence des Opérations Militaires ...' [Treuttel & Wurtz?], Paris [ca. 1817]. Very scarce plan of the battle of Trafalgar, drawn and engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, an engraver employed in the French Admiralty's Hydrographical Office, prepared for Dumas's military history of the Napoleonic Wars. The history was prepared in chronological form, with each fascicle devoted to one year from the war, with volume 6 covering 1805. This plan is divided into four sections, each devoted to one phase ('MOUVEMENT') of the battle, the first, the approach of the two British columns, lead by Nelson and Collingwood; the second shows the initial contact as the two columns engaged the Franco-Spanish line; the third shows the general melée between the ships of the two fleets, and the final section, the surviving ships of the joint fleet breaking away from the battle. £300 18
19 THE WOODEN WALLS 15 What Nelson Began, Strachan Finished LAURIE & WHITTLE. 'S.R RICH.D J. STRACHAN'S Action with the FRENCH, off ROCHEFORT: Nov.r 2. 1805. in which the four French ships were taken.' 'Publish'd Dec.r 12, 1805, by LAURIE & WHITTLE, 53, Fleet Street, London.' London: Robert Laurie & James Whittle, Decr. 12 1805, aquatint, printed in colour and finished by hand, border: 172 x 248 widest: 197 x 266 platemark: 201 x 273 mm. The paper a little creased, two tears to the upper platemark restored, one slightly inside the plate area. This is a hurriedly prepared and published plan/view of the naval battle fought between four British ships commanded by Sir Richard Strachan, and four French ships commanded by Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley, off Rochefort (near La Rochelle, on the west coast of France). The battle was fought on 2nd November 1805 and this plan published on 12th December. The victory was first announced in 'Lloyd's List', the British maritime newspaper on 8th November, while Strachan's squadron, with their prizes, docked in Plymouth on the 10th, and the resultant map in printed just over a month later. Sir Richard Strachan's squadron, originally part of the fleet blockading Brest, was detached to locate a squadron of ships from Rochefort that had put to sea, and were attacking British shipping. On station off Ferrol, in Spain, on 3rd November 1805, lookouts espied four French ships, which Strachan pursued. However, this was not the Rochefort Squadron, but the four surviving ships of the line from the Combined Franco-Spanish fleet that escaped the British at the Battle of Trafalgar - the 'Duguay-Trouin', 'Formidable', 'Mont Blanc' and 'Scipion' - sailing north for Rochefort. Finally, on the 4th, Strachan was able to bring the French to battle, some 264 miles west of Rochefort. Although the opposing forces were evenly matched, the four French ships were all crippled in the fighting and forced to surrender. Laurie and Whittle, in a fit of patriotic fervour, note "This Victory, obtained by Sr. Richd. Strachan, is as decisive, in every respect, and as glorious, to its extent as any which has ever been atchieved by British skill and gallantry. T<strong>here</strong> have been few instances in which the antagonists have been so well matched. The smallness of our loss in killed and wounded arose from the enemy firing high, and our closing suddenly with them." In one of the quirks of history, as the action took place closer to England, it was Strachan's fleet that arrived in England first, about the same time as the initial despatches announcing the victory at Trafalgar, and this may account for the publishers' over-excitement. £500
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