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Madras and Fort St. George

Map of Madras, as taken by the French under the Command of M. Mahe de la Bourdonnais on 21st September 1746, with the castle in the middle, fleet in the sea above. 1781 Etching

Date
1781
Mapmaker / publisher
Print made by: John Cary: Published by: James Macgowan: Published by: William Davis
Place
Chennai
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,500 × 1,950 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; permission field: © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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"Madras and Fort St. George" (1781). Print made by: John Cary: Published by: James Macgowan: Published by: William Davis, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madras_and_Fort_St._George_(BM_1871,1209.126).jpg

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