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 in front of the city. Plate no. 496 in part XX 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. Title and inscriptions in French.