Map of military posts in the colony of Berbice

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Map of military posts in the colony of Berbice

Anoniem / Anonymous

Title Leupe: Plaatsing der Posten ter beveiliging der Colonie Berbice.

This maps was produced in connection with the major slave uprising of 1763 that took place in Berbice and the recapture of the colony from the rebels in the following year, executed by the expeditionary corps sent out from the Republic and led by Colonel Jan Marius de Salve. This anonymous survey shows the situation in 1767, three years after the restoration of Dutch rule. The map indicates all the military posts which, up until then, had been equipped to at least temporarily safeguard the colony in anticipation of the execution of the project plans that had been presented in the meantime for the construction of a new main fort on the confluence of the Canje and Berbice Rivers, and a number of smaller fortifications. In accordance with the instructions issued to De Salve, the early versions of these plans were drawn up in the course of 1764 by one of his seconds-in-command in the expeditionary army, the major and military engineer of the army of the States-General François Samuel de Veije (1726-1797, also: De Veye). De Veije might hence be the one who drew this map.

North is upper right.

Scale-bar of 2000 Rhineland rods = [approximately 1 : 117,000].

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Is part of:

Berbice

Creator

Anoniem / Anonymous (land surveyor / mapmaker)

Period

ca. 1767

Material

paper

Technique

coloured drawing

Kind

drawing

Dimension

62 x 90 cm.62 x 90 cm.

Number

VEL1652

Owner

Nationaal Archief

Tags

fortification, Map/Chart/Plan, redoubt, compass / dial

Inscription

[lower left and lower right] a key to the letters A to I : Aanwysing der Letters en Posten Der beveijling Van de Colonie en Rivier De Berbice. A. Savonetta de bovenste Plantagie in de Rivier rio Berbice. B. De hoek van de kreek Wieronie. C. het geweesene forte Nassau en daar de stad gelegen heeft. D. voor de droogte de Marepaan. E. De bovenste Plantagie horstenburg in de Rivier rio Canie. F. De Batterie Van het Oost kant van het inkomen van De Rivier rio De Berbice. G. De Batterie van het West kant van het inkomen van De Rivier rio De Berbice. H. Porte ten naasten bij Midden in de Rivier Rio Canie ter faliciteering van de Posten e. en f. om derselve Communicatie te behouden sinde de Royinge der Plantagien ten desen niet gestelt om reedenen er veel nieuwe in laater tijden genoegsaam na de Mond van de Rivier Rio Canie gelegt sijn. I. Royinge van de Plantagien gesitueert langs de Rivier rio de Berbice.

Sources and literature

Heijer, H. den, Grote Atlas van de West-Indische Compagnie = Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch West India Company, II, de nieuwe WIC 1674-1791 = the new WIC 1674-1791 (2012)