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Project plan for the strenghtening of Fort Zeelandia

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Project plan for the strenghtening of Fort Zeelandia

Calvi, Andreas Ludovicus

Title Leupe: Plan van eenige Batteryen tot meerdere versterking van de Fortres Zelandia.

In the decades after 1710, numerous suggestions were made to revise the design of fort Zeelandia. This plan by the land surveyor Calvi measures the potential range of fire of the batteries at different tides. Profiles and ground plans are used in these calculations.

Taken from: OBP Suriname 1743 [fols.] 612-613.

Scale-bar of 50 Rhineland feet = 65 “strepen”.

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