Berkshire Downs—British Army cavalry manoeuvres—War Office map & report 1894
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'Cavalry Manœuvres 1894; Plan of Ground on Berkshire Downs'
The War Office map for the cavalry manoeuvres of autumn 1894 on the Berkshire Downs, where Colonel John French, who went on to command the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War, successfully led a brigade. A bold red line encloses the country between Lambourn, Wantage, Blewbury and Streatley where permission to manoeuvre had been obtained; outside it troops were to keep to roads and commons. Dashed red loops mark the ‘Training Courses’ on the downs above Lambourn and East Ilsley, then as now racehorse-training country. Over the one-inch Ordnance Survey base is a red grid of lettered and numbered squares, an early experiment in map referencing, decades before the National Grid. Zincographed at Southampton in 1894, and offered with the Report on Cavalry Manœuvres printed in 1895.
Size 39 x 77 cm | 15.5 x 30.0 inches
Date Published: 1894
Type: Antique zincographed folding military map printed in black and red, with accompanying official report
Author: Ordnance Survey
Publication: Report on Cavalry Manœuvres 1894
Condition: Good |
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