Map of Havana

Title Leupe: Plan du Port, Ville et Havre de la Havane, dresse sur les lieux par un Ingenieur du Roy.

This map of Havana was made in the name of Louis XIV. The focus on fortifications and batteries suggest the work served a military purpose. The elaborate information found on the map likely derived from French corsairs who had attacked the port mutiple times during the past one-and-a-half century. It is unknown how this French manuscript map found its way into the Dutch archives.

Scale-bar of 50 toises = 175 ‘strepen’.