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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">At another scale, the map
<i>'PROVINCES AUTRICHIENNES dans les Pays Bas y compris les
Principautés de LIEGE et de STAVELO, 1777</i>' is showing a
correct placement of Mont-Saint-Jean.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 08.10.2014 22:28, Matthew Edney a
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Dear All:
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<div>This just came across the transom …</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>The argument is that Napoleon used a <b>printed</b> map
derived from a <b>manuscript</b> map, and both were wrong, so
that Napoleon misplaced his artillery.</div>
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<div>I don't know enough about the events of the battle, but I'm
pretty sure that the French were not printing battle maps at
this point . . . does anyone have a better and non-journalistic
account?</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div>Matthew</div>
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Matthew Edney<br>
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Osher Professor in the History of Cartography (USM)<br>
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Director, History of Cartography Project (UW)<br>
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