"Siborne's Maps" Topic
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| Sebastian Palmer | 08 Jul 2015 1:52 p.m. PST |
Hi Just been to see an excellent Napoleonic/Waterloo themed exhibition – A Damned Serious Business – at the Cambridge Universtiy Library's Milstein Exhibition Centre: link … whilst writing up a post for my blog about my visit to the show, and lamenting that whilst they referred to them, they didn't actually exhibit any of Capt. Siborne's amazing 3-D effect maps, I discovered that they have at least put them up online: link I've seen this topic posted about a couple of times before here on TMP, but one of those has a link that's now defunct: TMP link … and the other: TMP link links to scans that are, in my view, of a lesser quality than these newer 'official' CUL versions. Hope this is of use/interest? Regards, Sebastian |
| Navy Fower Wun Seven | 08 Jul 2015 3:10 p.m. PST |
Yes thanks Sebastian. Siborne was of course a Captain in the Royal Engineers and a trained military surveyor/topographer, and conducted a thorough survey of the battlefield in 1820, prior to excavation work for the Lion mound. In my view his opinion of the battlefield trumps Victor Hugo's fanciful Romantic notions of 'death ravines' and perilously sunken roads, etc, that seem to predominate amongst some wargamers. |
| svsavory | 08 Jul 2015 8:20 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the link. I enjoy studying those old maps. |
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