Memory of the World; 2012 - unesdoc - Unesco

� ‘A chart of Great Britain and Ireland with the coasts of France,
Spain and Portugal exhibiting all the Channels, Harbors, Bays
Islands with bearings and exact distances’ published by John
Stockdale of Piccadilly, London in 1798, from the Miranda archive.
letters, prints and maps. Miranda himself organized
it in 1805. It includes sixty-three volumes, divided into
three sections: travels (twenty-six volumes), the French
Revolution (eighteen volumes) and negotiation (nineteen
volumes). A few days before he was detained by the
Spanish in 1812, he sent all the boxes that contained this
documentation to Curaçao (a British colony at the time).
Soon after, the documents were sent to Great Britain,
where they stayed until Venezuela acquired them in 1926.
� A fascinating example of the wealth of the Miranda Archives,
a menu of the food and wine offered by M. Savard, Restaurateur.
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