Plan of new batteries on Saint Eustatius

Title Leupe: Plan en Profil der geprojecteerde Batteryen op Bouille en Montplaisant, ingevolge het plan van defensive.

At the end of 1781, shortly after the capture of Sint Eustatius from the English, Battery Bouillé had been built on the orders of the eponymous French commander, but the construction of Montplaisant never progressed any further than the intention to build it. As the Dutch returned to the island in 1784, new plans needed to be made. This design, which also never came to fruition, was drawn in March or April 1787 by the Swiss-born military engineer Lieutenant Johann Heinrich Hottinger and, probably only as a matter of form, by naval lieutenant Albert Kikkert, and were co-signed by the incumbent garrison commander of Sint Eustatius, Lieutenant-Colonel Ph. O’Reilly. At this time, Hottinger and Kikkert were responsible for a large number of plans for the defense of the Dutch Antilles, and these were later bundled together with their recommendations in the Plan van Defensie (Defense Plan) mentioned in the captions to these maps. In 1789, this plan was presented to both the commissioners who had been sent to Curaçao by Stadtholder Willem V to investigate complaints about its administration, Jonkheer Willem August Sirtama thoe Grovestins and the lawyer Willem Cornelis Boey. In the nineteenth century, the maps pertaining to the Memorandum of Kikkert and Hottinger were removed from it and put in various collections, as in this instance the Leupe collection of the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands.

North is upper left.

Scale-bar of 30 Rhineland Rods = [approximately 1 : 545] / [profile] 2 Rhineland Rods = [approximately 1 : 90].