Map of the Cordon of Defence at the Cassewinika Creek

Titel Leupe: Kaart van de Posten in de Cassewinica Creeq gelegen.

This survey map was designed to complement the plans for the large Cordon of Defence which was constructed between 1774 and 1778 to protect the eastern plantation areas and the adjacent coastal strip against the initially very successful Marron troops led by Boni. The first designs and surveys had been prepared in 1772, but preliminary work on a large scale, in which the military engineers Johan Christoph Heneman and Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Wollant, played a leading role, began only a year later. Both of them produced detail maps of the separate sections of the Cordon path. Here the posts around the Cassewinica Creek are shown through references which relate to an index on the right side of the map. In addition, an impression is given of nearby forests and riverways.

Scale-bar of 400 Chains = 213 ‘strepen’.