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MS.1647.Z.02/83a
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National Library of Scotland
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Title:
A Plan of a new fort design'd for Inverness : done exactly upon the old lines of Olivers Fort; with the additional outworks of cover'd-way, lunettes and glassis; all which are more fully explain'd in the particular plans & sections
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A Plan of a new fort design'd for Inverness : done exactly upon the old lines of Olivers Fort; with the additional outworks of cover'd-way, lunettes and glassis; all which are more fully explain'd in the particular plans & sections
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Marcell, Lewis (active 1746)
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Date:
1746
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This is Lewis Marcell's 1746 plan for a fort to replace the Fort George which had been on the Inverness Castle site, and was destroyed by the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in 1746, just before Culloden (see Charles Tarrant's details of the destruction at shelfmarks MS.1646.Z.02/36a and MS.1646.Z.02/37a). This plan is accompanied by 10 sheets of sections at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.02/79b, MS.1647.Z.02/79c, MS.1647.Z.02/80a, MS.1647.Z.02/80b, MS.1647.Z.02/81a, MS.1647.Z.02/81b, MS.1647.Z.02/81c, MS.1647.Z.02/81d, MS.1647.Z.02/81e and MS.1647.Z.02/83b. Two sets of plans for a new Fort George at Inverness were drawn up, using the site of the old Cromwellian fort, known as Oliver's Fort (see Louis Petit's map at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/78a), this set by Marcell, and a set by William Skinner. In the event, the Oliver's Fort site was rejected, after a claim of compensation from the town of Inverness for the loss of use of their harbour, and the new Fort George was built at Ardersier Point, to another set of designs by William Skinner (see plans and sections from shelfmarks MS.1646.Z.02/39 to MS.1646.Z.02/60).
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This is Lewis Marcell's 1746 plan for a fort to replace the Fort George which had been on the Inverness Castle site, and was destroyed by the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in 1746, just before Culloden (see Charles Tarrant's details of the destruction at shelfmarks MS.1646.Z.02/36a and MS.1646.Z.02/37a). This plan is accompanied by 10 sheets of sections at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.02/79b, MS.1647.Z.02/79c, MS.1647.Z.02/80a, MS.1647.Z.02/80b, MS.1647.Z.02/81a, MS.1647.Z.02/81b, MS.1647.Z.02/81c, MS.1647.Z.02/81d, MS.1647.Z.02/81e and MS.1647.Z.02/83b. Two sets of plans for a new Fort George at Inverness were drawn up, using the site of the old Cromwellian fort, known as Oliver's Fort (see Louis Petit's map at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/78a), this set by Marcell, and a set by William Skinner. In the event, the Oliver's Fort site was rejected, after a claim of compensation from the town of Inverness for the loss of use of their harbour, and the new Fort George was built at Ardersier Point, to another set of designs by William Skinner (see plans and sections from shelfmarks MS.1646.Z.02/39 to MS.1646.Z.02/60).
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48.8 x 50.3cm (1' 7 3/16" x 1' 7 13/16")
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48.8 x 50.3cm (1' 7 3/16" x 1' 7 13/16")
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Subject Place:
Fort George
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Fort George
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Subject Place:
Inverness
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Inverness
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Subject Place:
Scotland
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Scotland
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Board of Ordnance
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Maps, Military
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Reference:
Tabraham, Chris, Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995, pp. 92-94
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Tabraham, Chris, Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995, pp. 92-94
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Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800, 3rd. Division, North Britain, [1800], f.14 (Public Record Office: WO 55/2281).
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Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800, 3rd. Division, North Britain, [1800], f.14 (Public Record Office: WO 55/2281).
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Rights Statement:
© 2002 Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the National Library of Scotland
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© 2002 Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the National Library of Scotland
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