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Plan of the defenses at the mouth of the Demerara river

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Plan of the defenses at the mouth of the Demerara river

Kanne, Carl Christiaan

Title Leupe: Plan van de defensie van de mond van Rio Demerary.

This map shows the plans for WIC fortification around the Demerara River, and indicates the range of the batteries with grey lines.

The construction of British and French defences at the Demerara River amounted to a resumption of the Dutch project plans shown here. For instance, the location of the two French forts known as Le Dauphin and La Reine corresponded pretty closely to the spots that Kanne appoints to the new fortifications on this map.

Scale-bar of 500 Rhineland Rods = 175 ‘strepen’ [approximately 1 : 10,800].

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Sources and literature

Heijer, H. den, Grote Atlas van de West-Indische Compagnie = Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch West India Company, II, de nieuwe WIC 1674-1791 = the new WIC 1674-1791 (2012)