Plan of the Battle of Lens, 1648 England Extracts from Home Letters written

Extracts from Home Letters written during a Two Years’ Tour Round the World

Early British writers who mention the Pike of Tenerife are referring to the the snow covered peak of the Teide volcano in the centre of the island

Colchide et Iberie selon les anciens

De Maginot – En Siegfried Line

Prepared by papal cartographer Innocenzo Mattaei circa 1666

Plan of the Battle of Lens, 1648 England Extracts from Home Letters writtenLa Bataille de Lens en Flandre gaignee par lArmee du tres Chres[tien] Louys XIIII Roy de France ed de Navarre, Comandee par Monseigneur le Prince de Conde, sur larmee Espagnolle commandee par lArchduc Leopold, le 20e jour dAoust 1648. The upper sheet is a birds eye view looking from the French positions towards the Spanish, within a wreath and flanked by a cockerel and an eagle. The lower sheet is in plan, presented on a lion skin with inset views of