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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.
- ItemPlan of the Eastern Frontier Cape of Good Hope and the adjacent country of the Kaffr [sic] tribes. The red tint[s] shew the present colonial boundary; the military posts are marked in red. [Map 14](1846-12) Reid, John; Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersTopographical map giving a view of the eastern frontier before the war of the Axe of 1847. The table of distances between the towns and forts was unusual at the time.
- 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 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 site of the new military post at Fort Murray, County Lincoln, British Kaffraria. [Map 19](1850-09-20) Stanton, Edward; Robertson, Charles Duesbury.; Inglis, T.; Great Britain. Army. Royal EngineersShows the old and new Fort Murray and a cross section of the ground on which the new Fort was erected. The Buffalo River and the roads to King William's Town and East London are also shown.