[TEMPLE, Lieutenant R.]
Eight Views, of the Mauritius,
Eight Views, of the Mauritius,
comprising the positions of the British army, commanded by the Honble. Majr. Genl. J. Abercrombie, on the 29th and 30th of Novr. & 1st of Decr. 1810, also of the town and harbour of Port Louis.]
Stock Code 81886
London, W. Haines, 1813.
Major General John Abercrombie (1772-1817) was made Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1809, and a year later lead the expedition that captured Mauritius from the French in 1810. Mauritius had become a base for the French corsairs which harassed British commercial vessels travelling to and from India, and capturing it was a small but important strategic victory in the larger context of British naval domination during the Napoleonic wars.
First edition; landscape folio, dimensions (42 x 28.5 cm); 6 (of 8) hand-coloured aquatint plates, loose, without title, a little uneven toning, in very good condition.
Abbey (Travel), 293; Tooley 481.
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