Tactical formation plans.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Admiral of the Fleet, the Honourable Sir Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot., 1855-1859, 1863, 1890.
Includes navigational sketches and sailing plans and some papers of Admiral Elliot, 1863-1890 (folio 416).
Correspondence and papers of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Minto concerning their commands in the Roxburgh Regiment, Volunteer Infantry and the 1st Regiment, Roxburghshire Local Militia respectively., 1804-1819.
Journal kept by Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour while a naval cadet and midshipman in the paddle-wheel frigate, HMS ‘Terrible’, March-October 1854, and March-September 1855., 1854-1855.
Throughout the period, except for a short visit to Gibraltar in August 1855 to load ammunition, HMS ’Terrible’ was stationed in the Black Sea, where she took part in bombarding the forts at Sebastopol, pursuing Russian shipping, and carrying troops. Much of the journal concerns the movements of ships and officers, but it also refers to contemporary events, and includes some descriptions of the Crimea and the British army. Some small sketches and plans of engagements have been inserted.
Letters of Sir Charles Maitland to his mother, with related material., 1854-1855.
The letters concern the Crimean War, describing Sir Charles Maitland's journey to Sebastopol, the actions in which he took part, and his convalescence after being wounded. There is a rough plan of the battle of Balaclava at folio 226 verso. At folio 281 is a letter, 1855, from General Sir George Higginson to Maitland. Some of the letters are incomplete, and each is followed by a typed transcript.
Miscellaneous educational, cultural and literary papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1758-1867.
Official letters of Hugh Elliot to the Foreign Office concerning principally the flight of the Sicilian Court from Naples to Palermo, and the French campaigns in Calabria., May 1805-1806.
With accounts and a plan (folio 259) of the battle of Maida.
Official papers, being chiefly copies, of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras., 1832-1849.
Official papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras., 1842-1849.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Statistics of crime in the Madras Army, 1842-1847 (folio 1);
(ii) Papers, including a map, undated, concerning the battle of Aliwal (folio 87);
(iii) Plan, 1849, of the position of the British and Sikh armies (folio 93);
(iv) Papers, 1849, concerning the mutiny of the 6th Light Cavalry (folio 93).
Papers relating to Fort St George., 1809.
The contents are as follows.
(i) (i) Table, 'Present State of the Army on the Fort St George Establishment extracted from the last Returns received from Corps' 13 August 1809 (folio 1);
(ii) Plan Exhibiting the present partition of the country dependent on Fort St George into Military Divisions, with the several Stations of Troops, Agreeable to the General Distribution Returns of the Coast Army, for the month of September 1809' (folio 3).
Papers relating to the military career of James Seton., 1761-1773.
So-called 'Clandestine Correspondence'; five tiny letters designed to be possibly 'hidden in the curl of a wig or in the hollow of a riding whip', contained in a small grey agate box., [Circa 1745-circa 1746.]
One letter is in the hand of Andrew Lumisden, the others perhaps in the hand of Sir Robert Strange. One of the documents gives a plan of the line of battle of General Hawley's troops for the Battle of Falkirk.