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, November 30, 1700. Plate no. 444 in part XVIII of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne, 1726, this second part with 271 hand-numbered plates of famous fortified cities and strongholds in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. Most of these plates are copied from anonymous French plates of famous fortified cities and strongholds: 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 in French.