Royal Engineer’s maps and Plans (Laidler Collection)

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General plan: sketch shewing postion of posts, signal towers &c. &c. [Map 30]
(1859-12-08) Tatham, R. B.; Smith, Percy; Bolton, Daniel, 1794-1860.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers; Great Britain. Army. Cape of Good Hope Command. Eastern Province Division; Fanshawe, Charles
The military posts, in the Districts of Albany and Beaufort in the Eastern Cape, are shown on this map.
Junction of the Little with the Great Fish River, right bank as far as Kooste's Drift in front of Grahamstown. [Map 5]
(1824-04-03) Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers
Map shows part of the area of the Deputy-Drosty of Albany between the Great and Little Fish Rivers and the Suurberg mountains (Zuureberg). Grahamstown is shown as well as abandoned military posts.
Sketch of the District of Albany, Cape of Good Hope. [Map 9]
(1837) Piers, H. W.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers
Map showing the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony on the Eastern Frontier between it and the Xhosa People, as defined by treaties signed in 1836. Garson (1992) attributes W. H. Piers with the drawing of the map.