- Lot 107

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- Lot 107
GENERAL DEPOSIT OF THE WAR. (Map for the Russian campaign). [Paris, Dépôt de la guerre, 1812-1814]. Black and white. Map in several sheets assembled and interfaced as a wall map, this one mounted on original wooden sticks. Paper browned and crumpled, various tears and snags especially at the top right and left of the map. Handwritten markings and mentions in red and blue pencil. 1470 x 2360 mm. THE GREAT ARMY AND THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. Monumental map in several sheets assembled and mounted on rods made of maps from the "Map of European Russia, translated and engraved by order of the Government at the General War Office in 1812, 1813, 1814, from the Russian map in 104 sheets". Paris, Dépôt de la Guerre, 1812-1814. The maps in the upper part have the following titles: Vilna - Vitebsk/Smolensk - Moscow. Scale in Leagues from 25 to the degree and in Versts from 104 1/2 to the degree. The map covers Prussia, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The Russian Campaign. Important annotated wall map of Russia, started during the Campaign in Russia* (June 24 - December 14, 1812). It shows in pencil in red and blue, the advance and retreat of the Grand Army with tracings, dates and names of marshals as well as an N for Napoleon. The marshals mentioned are the following: Ney, Murat, Gros, Eugène de Beauharnais, Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, Davout and Oudinot. The route (in red) starts from Tilsit towards Kovno (June 23) [On June 24, at 5 am, the army of the Twenty Nations begins the crossing of the Nemen at Kovno], then Ghrodno (June 30), Brestlitov (July 20), Kobrin (July 27), Sventsianouï with the N for Napoleon (July 17), Ghloubokoé with the N (July 18-22), Smolensk (August 16-19). The Retreat: three routes depart from Moscow, one to Maloiaroslavets (October 24), then Viazma (November 3), Smolensk (November 9), Borisov (November 27-29) [crossing the Berezina], Smorghoni (December 5) [Napoleon leaves the army at Smorgoni and heads for Paris] and Kovno (December 15). *The Map of European Russia at 1:500,000, published in 1812-1814 on 77 sheets is the adaptation of a Russian document in 104 sheets; the first deliveries were very successful, but Napoleon forbade on July 30, 1812 "to sell anything from our War and Navy depots", and asked that the maps be provided free of charge to officers on mission, and that "500 copies of the new map of Russia be sent immediately by a van on duty to the Grand Army".
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