Plan for a bastion for the Piscadera Bay

Title Leupe: Project om de Piscaderisbay te versterken.

This sketch belongs to a series of plans (VEL1462-VEL1472) to fortify the Piscadera, Saint Michiel, Porto Marie and Santa Cruz Bays with a small battery and fort. The design for a bastion shown here is adjusted to the landscape of the Piscadera Bay, with three bastions sticking out inlands and a tower facing the sea from the corner of the coast. Next to the ground plan, a profile is inserted to show the width of the walls. The fort was indeed constructed and later occupied by British forces in 1804 to serve as a base for the siege of Willemstad.

Scale-bar of 40 Rhineland rods = 155 ‘strepen’.