Print: "The Marquisate and plan of Bergen Op Zoom with the French Camp and attacks by an Engineer, 1747".
The Marquisate and plan of Bergen Op Zoom with the French Camp and attacks by an Engineer, 1747.
Administrative / biographical background
The Siege of Bergen op Zoom (Dutch, Beleg van Bergen op Zoom) took place during the Austrian War of Succession, when a French army, under the command of Lowendal and the overall direction of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, laid siege and captured the strategic Dutch border fortress of Bergen op Zoom on the border of Brabant and Zeeland in 1747. The fortress was defended by Dutch, Austrians, British, Hanoverians and Hessians that supported the Pragmatic Sanction.
Administrative / biographical background
The Siege of Bergen op Zoom (Dutch, Beleg van Bergen op Zoom) took place during the Austrian War of Succession, when a French army, under the command of Lowendal and the overall direction of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, laid siege and captured the strategic Dutch border fortress of Bergen op Zoom on the border of Brabant and Zeeland in 1747. The fortress was defended by Dutch, Austrians, British, Hanoverians and Hessians that supported the Pragmatic Sanction.
Record Details
| Item reference: | BTL/4/6; MSS/77/066 MSS/77/066.0 MS1977/066 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | 1747 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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