Attack on Québec, 1690

Attack by English ships on the French in the city of Quebec, the attack is repelled, 16-22 October 1690. Map of Quebec and surroundings with the English fleet on the Saint Lawrence River before the city. Plate no. 160 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.