Map of Fort Carlsburg, ca. 1702

Plan of Fort Carlsburg, built by the Swedes at the mouth of the Geeste in the Weser, now part of the German city of Bremerhaven. Plate no. 143 in the print work consisting in total of 276 numbered plates of famous strong cities and fortresses in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession. For the most part, these plates are copied from anonymous French plates: in Les forces de l'Europe and in: Le theatre de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, both originally published by Nicolas de Fer in Paris (1693-1697) in the context of the Nine Years' War. Title and inscriptions on the plate in French.