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Tableau des opérations de la Grande Armée depuis l'ouverture de la campagne jusqu'au 21 aout 1812 - (Eastern Europe).

Shows the advance of the French Napoleonic forces eastward from Dantzick (Gdańsk, Poland) to Smolensk (Russia) by 21 August 1812. Indicates the French and Russian army troop positions and movements in what is now Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia. No statement of attribution or date of publication are present. Title from upper margin. No handwritten signature of Millard Fillmore is present (recto or verso). When affixed to the cloth backing the map sheet was sectioned to 6 panels to enable folding. LC sheet imperfect: Recto darkened at sheet edges and at panel intervals, lightly water-stained; cloth backing water-stained and sunlight-darkened; LC acquision rubber-stamping on recto in lower margin. Includes text, bar scale "Échelle en lieues de 25 au degré", and note "Distances de Dantzick à Smolensk et à Moskou". Handwritten (script) title slip affixed to cloth backing (verso): Map of the War of 1812 in Europe; number label affixed to cloth backing; 240. Vault

Date
1812
Place
Poland
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
5,371 × 4,001 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.

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"Tableau des opérations de la Grande Armée depuis l'ouverture de la campagne jusqu'au 21 aout 1812 - (Eastern Europe)." (1812). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tableau_des_op%C3%A9rations_de_la_Grande_Arm%C3%A9e_depuis_l%27ouverture_de_la_campagne_jusqu%27au_21_aout_1812_-_(Eastern_Europe)._LOC_2018588067.jpg

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