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- ItemBearings of principal military posts and remarkable peaks visible from proposed sites of signal towers at Hill S of Piet Apples Location, Great Fish River and Hill over Fraser's Camp. [Map 12](1843) Hall, Henry, 1815-1882; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers; Reid, JohnThe original map was by Henry Hall. This is a copy possibly by John Reid. The original signed sketch is in the Cape Archives.
- ItemGeneral 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, CharlesThe military posts, in the Districts of Albany and Beaufort in the Eastern Cape, are shown on this map.
- ItemJunction 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 EngineersMap 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.
- ItemPlan of Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope: shewing the relative situation of the existing and proposed military buildings to accompany an estimate and report from Lt.Col. Lewis, Comg. RI. Engr. to the Inspector General of Fortifications. Dated 18th March 1837. [Map 8](1837-03-18) Piers, H. W.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers; Lewis, Griffith George, 1784-1850.The plan shows Fort Frederick and the Donkin Memorial, now the Donkin Pyramid. All the buildings, extant in Port Elizabeth in 1837, are shown.
- ItemSketch of ground about Forts Fordyce, District of Beaufort Cape of Good Hope. [Map 21](1852) Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersThe two Forts Fordyce, one of stone and one of earthwork, located along what was known as the Beaufort/Argyll Road, are shown. The Forts were named after Lieut-Col John Fordyce killed in the vicinity of the Forts 6 November 1851 in the Eighth Frontier War of 1851-53
- ItemSketch of ground on right bank of th Buffalo River B. Kaffraria, shewing site selected for an entrenched camp to be named Fort Pato. Vide Genr. Order No 97. [Map 20](1851-05-17) Robertson, Charles Duesbury.; Stace, William C.; Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersMap shows Fort Pato situated between Fort Murray to the west and Forts Grey and Glamorgan along the Buffalo River to East London. The fort was named after Phato (ca. 1785-1869).
- ItemSketch of the District of Albany, Cape of Good Hope. [Map 9](1837) Piers, H. W.; Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersMap 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.
- ItemSketch shewing position of military posts and German villages on the line of road between East London and Dohne Post, British Kaffraria. [Map 27](1857-06-18) Duff, Robert William; Akers, Charles Style; Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersThe area covered by this map lies between East London and the Kabousie Mountains in the north. Forts, posts, the German villages and the Dohne and Peelton mission stations are marked.
- ItemSketch shewing the relative bearings and distances, per waggon, between the different military posts on the Eastern Frontier, Cape of Good Hope. [Map 11](1844) Reid, John; Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersThe coastline from Port Elizabeth to the Keiskamma River forms the southern boundary of the map, the Black Kei being the northernmost feature. Those posts which are shown are situated on the Great Fish, the Kat, the Kowie, the Koonap and Tyhume Rivers. Grahamstown, Bathurst and Fort Beaufort are also shown. The map resembles others in the collection drawn up by John Reid. His maps are dated between 1844 and 1847.