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(SIEGE OF ANTWERP.) ~ Journal du Siège de la citadelle d’Anvers par un detachement de l’armée du Roy en 1746. [France, paper watermarked 1749].
An early manuscript report of the succesful French siege of Antwerp which took place in May 1746, as French troops commanded by the maréchal de Saxe and Louis XV pushed into the Low Countries in this campaign of what came to be called the War of the Austrian Succession.
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Antwerp was of key strategic importance, sited as it was on the banks of the Scheldt estuary. It’s vast bastion (of which almost nothing survives today) is strikingly depicted in the attached manuscript plan, where the advances of each of the seven nights of the siege are marked with coloured lines. The report lists the major commanders, the regiments involved and gives a narrative of stages of the French victory.
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