Siege and relief of Narva, 1700

Narva in Estonia besieged by the Russian army under Tsar Peter the Great is relieved by the Swedish army under King Charles XII, 30 November 1700. Plate no. 146 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.