"Map Sources for Specific Battles?" Topic

I'm looking for maps of specific battles, generally smaller battles, from various campaigns, anyone able to point me in some good directions? I'm not seeking current day maps, I'm looking for stuff close to the date / year of the battles:

Schleiz, 1806
Halle, 1806
Prenzlau, 1806
Waren-Nossentin, 1806
Lübeck, 1806

Czarnowo, 1806
Mohrungen, 1806

Ostrołęka, 1807
Guttstadt-Deppen, 1807
Heilsberg, 1807

Maps need to provide some notion of troop dispositions, major terrain features, topography…

Any assistance is appreciated thanks!

Cheers,

The Bandit

Have you tried the map archive on Napoleon Series
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Thanks, I can never seem to find my way around the Napoleon Series which drives me a bit mad because there is so much to be found there.

I'm trying to figure out the scale of this map:

Not reading Russian I don't know the term being used on the scale.

Anyone able to shed some light?

Cheers,

The Bandit

The Bandit,

It is most probably measured in versts, which are equivalent to 1.067 km or 0.66 mile. I cannot think of any other archaic Russian measurement that would fit.

Jurgen

Your best source for these campaigns would be James Arnold's books on Eylau and Friedland.

You can determine the scale of your map by finding the towns on Google Earth, measuring the distance between the town centers using the ruler function, and doing some math.

Stephen

Jurgen is correct. The scale on the map says "Верстѣ" (Verste/Versts).

Try this for the others ….
Find the Wiki for the placename in English. Then select from the left the Russian language Wiki. Get the name for the place in Russian.
Then search in Google for сражение при XXXXXX карта, where XXXXXX is the Russian place name …..
example : сражение при Остроленка карта or сражение при Остроленка 1807 карта
Then select the search results for Images. There should be a few maps to chose from. (Russians like maps a lot, for some reason).

- Sasha

Thank you to all three of you.

Cheers,

The Bandit

Sasha,

It is good to have that confirmed; although I speak some Russian, I have never been able to read it.

Jurgen

Jurgen,

Reading Russian is not easy at all …. it takes a while before the letters stop look like "pretty designs" and start looking like actual "letters" from an alphabet.

Lots of the older material, of real interest for wargaming and often available on-line for free, has the pre-revolution spelling and vocabulary, and lots of "Imperial" syntax for obsolete offices and honorifics. Some modern Russians even have trouble with this kind of material.

"Верстѣ" (Verste/Versts) is an obsolete or archaic measure which no one uses – except for my driver, an old Kuban Cossack man who does not know English miles and thinks meters and kilometers were invented by bolsheviks and the devil. Since the roads are often bad and the traffic generally horrid, when he says "versts" I just think "miles" and am less often disappointed.
:-)

To make it harder, the letter "ѣ", called "yat", is itself obsolete – it is replaced in modern Russian by the character "e".

- Sasha

You can find a map of Heilsberg in Alison's Atlas downloadable at link

Thiers Atlas of the Wars of the Consular & Empire periods can be downloaded from:
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Atlas of battles etc 1792-1815 by Ferdinand von Dürrich, Franz Georg Friedrich von Kausler, J. E. Woerl
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Maps from 1812 campaign in Russia including battles of Smolensk, Polotsk (both battles), Malo-Jaroslawetz, Krasnoye & others. link

Maps of battles of La Rothière, Montmirail, Montereau, Craonne, Laon & others from 1814.
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Atlas of maps and charts on Russian military history – thanks to Ralph R. Reinertsen, Napoleon Series Forum.
Maps and charts from the wars of the Kiev Rus to the Russian-Japanese War. It is in Russian, but the maps are clear as to movements etc. You can read online or download as pdf or Djvu link

Maps of 1812 (Russian Campaign) – Thanks to Ralph R. Reinertsen at the Napoleonic Series Forum for the links etc to the Boutourlin Maps at the McGill collection. Left click on the map to get a larger version, then – using the map in the new window – right click to save the jpg file.
Planche 1: CARTE de la CONTREE ENTRE WITBSK et SMOLENSK (Opération 1812);
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Planche 2: CARTE de MOJAÏSK, MOSCOU et MALO JAROSLAWETS;
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Planche 3A: PLAN du Combat de SALTANOWKA;
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Planche 3B: PLAN de la Bataille de KLIASTITZY;
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Planche 4: PLAN DU COMBAT de SMOLENSK;
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Planche 5: PLAN DU COMBAT DE LOUBINO;
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Planche 6: PLAN de la BATAILLE DE BORODINO;
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Planche 7: PLAN de la BATAILLE DE GORODECZNA;
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Planche 8: PLAN POUR L'INTELLIGENCE DES DEUX BATAILLES LIVREES à POLOTSK avec joint le PAPILLON pour la BATAILLE de POLOTSK;
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Planche 9: PLAN du COMBAT DE LA CZERNICZNIA;
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Planche 10: PLAN du COMBAT de MALO -JAROLAWETZ;
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Planche 11: PLAN du COMBAT DE KRASSNOÏ;
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Planche 12: PLAN DU COMBAT DE SMOLIANTSY; and
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Planche 13: PLAN DES COMBATS DE STAKHOW et de STOUDENKI.
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map resource that may help.
maproom.org/00/13/index.php