Capture of Cremona, 1702

Plan of Cremona, taken by the imperial army under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the night of January 31 to February 1, 1702. Shortly thereafter, the French retook the city. Plate no. 363 in part XV of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne from 1726, this second part with 271 hand-numbered plates of famous strong cities and fortresses in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. Most of these plates are copied from the anonymous French plates of famous strong cities and fortresses: 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. Titles in Dutch and French.