France. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 2.0000. Latitude: 46.0000.
Subject
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Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:
Die Schlacht von Laon den 9ten Marz 1814; gezeinet von C. Brugner; gestchen von H. Brose; gedruckte von Pretre [Copy 1]., 1814.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(154a)
Scope and Contents
Coloured map.
Dates:
1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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Two copies of a map, 'Die Schlacht von Laon den 9ten Marz 1814; gezeinet von C. Brugner; gestchen von H. Brose; gedruckte von Pretre.'
Die Schlacht von Laon den 9ten Marz 1814; gezeinet von C. Brugner; gestchen von H. Brose; gedruckte von Pretre [Copy 2]., 1814.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(154b)
Scope and Contents
Coloured map.
Dates:
1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed.
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Collection of maps.
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Two copies of a map, 'Die Schlacht von Laon den 9ten Marz 1814; gezeinet von C. Brugner; gestchen von H. Brose; gedruckte von Pretre.'
Grand tour journal of Robert Campbell of Auchmannoch
Item
Identifier: Acc.13919
Scope and Contents
The journal covers a Grand Tour through France, Switzerland and Italy untaken between 29 June 1829 and early August 1830.
Dates:
1829-1830
Illustrated accounts of trips to France and Scotland by the family of Charles Foote Gower.
Item
Identifier: MS.29498
Dates:
1854-1862.
Journal of a continental tour of Andrew MacInnes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13701
Scope and Contents
Journal of a tour to France, Switzerland and Germany by Andrew MacInnes and `Richard`. At the back of the volume are accounts of expenses on the tour, mileages and a number of Scottish songs. The notebook is bound in a larger twentieth century volume together with a full transcript and a letter of 1928 of Andrew MacInnes, Saint William, Ontario, Canada, son of the diarist, to his nephew Clayton McCall donating the journal to him. Andrew MacInnes and his companion...
Dates:
1830
Journal of a tour in France, Switzerland and Italy, by Scotish traveller of the Anderson family.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7551
Dates:
1864.
Journal of John Mortimer Hunt on our first tour on the Continent., 1860-1861.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13718/2
Journal of Margaret Aytoun.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7291
Scope and Contents
Describing a tour through Holland, Belgium, the Rhineland and Northern France.
Dates:
1840.
Journal of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, of tours in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, The Levant, Turkey and in Europe, with descriptions of yachting and sporting visits to Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents
The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates:
1852-1867
Journalist's notebooks of Neal Ascherson.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13676/1-185
Scope and Contents
The notebooks and engagement diaries cover Ascherson's career as correspondent for the Manchester Guardian (1956-57), The Scotsman (1959-60), Observer (1960-1975 and 1979-1990), and The Independent on Sunday (1990-1998), as well as his later career as a writer and academic. They contain descriptive notes relating to his research and reporting on international and home politics and affairs. From 1987, the notebooks also contain detailed personal diary entries.Ascherson's time as...
Dates:
1957-2013
Laissex-passer to enter France granted to "le Sr Cochran".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7167
Dates:
9 June 1762.
Letter book and correspondence, concerning the wine trade in Bordeaux and French trade with Scotland generally.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6552
Dates:
1717-1741.
Letter of Andrew Hay to John Hay of Alderston.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10961
Scope and Contents
Concerns the purchase of books in France and Holland.
Dates:
1699.
Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families, relating to the First World War and life in Australia.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13540
Scope and Contents
Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families. The papers consist of an Army pay book, 1887-1893, of Private James Reid, 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; a letter from Andrew Reid to his parents, 16 December [1916], describing his experiences on the Somme front during the First World War; 2 letters, 6 January 1918, of Mary King (nee Reid) to her mother, and to her sister, sent from New South Wales, Australia; a photograph of Mary with her husband, Andrew...
Dates:
1887-1920
Letters of Angus Graham to his sister, Dorothy Vaughan Johnson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9390
Scope and Contents
Written while on active service in France and Egypt.
Dates:
1914-1918.
Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13711
Scope and Contents
Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War, c.1915-1916.Letters and postcards of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and part of the British Expeditionary Force, c.1915-1916. Riddell, a machine gunner (number 9969), was captured and made a prisoner of war in 1914, during the early weeks of the war. He was captured at the Battle of Bertry, at which time around 500 Gordon Highlanders were taken prisoner. ...
Dates:
1915-1916.
[Map of area Auberchicourt-Aubigny au Baq-Bouchain]., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(128)
[Map of area Auberchicourt-Bouchain-Denain]., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(129)
[Map of junction of rivers Seille and Escaut]., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(130)
[Map of the action of 13 December 1813, near Petite Moguerre]., 1813.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(81)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
1813.
[Map of the area about Denain, Bouchain-Prouvy, Abson-Noyelles]. [Signed] Alex Thomson, Capt. Royal Engineers. Oct. 13th, 1816., 1816.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(117)
Scope and Contents
Scale 4 inch to 1 mile
Dates:
Other: 1816.
[Map of the area about Denain]. October 22, 1816., 1816.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(119)
Scope and Contents
Scale 3 inch to 1 mile
Dates:
Other: 1816.
[Map of the area SE of Bouchain. Signed] S A Perry, Lt R Staff Corps, 3d September 1818., 1818.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(124)
[Map of the junction of the R Escaut and Ecallion (scale 3 inches to 1 mile) and map of the area around Maing (scale 1.5 inches to 1 mile)]. 1817., 1817.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(122)
[Map of the] swamp from Roult to the Scheldt. October 1816., 1816.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(121)