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Plan for extending the French fort on Guadeloupe

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Plan for extending the French fort on Guadeloupe

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Title Leupe: Plan du fort Francois op Guadeloupe.

This ground plan was likely drawn after the short British occupation of the island (1759-1763) to improve French defences. This plan shows the location of, among others, the new church, logies, barracks, prison and depots.

Scale-bar of 40 ‘Toises’ = 117 ‘strepen’.

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