The Topographical Section of the General Staff: With an Account of the Geographical Services of the Austrian, French, German, and Russian, Armies (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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After the rebellion of 1745 had been finally crushed at Culloden, and military posts established throughout the Highlands, lieut-general Watson, at that time (1747) Deputy quartermaster-general in North Britain, recognizing the necessity of having a good map of a wild and rugged region, which had so lately been the scene of military Operations, and might be so again, directed maj.-general Roy, r.e., then Deputy Assistant Quarter master-general, to undertake the task.

This survey, which was afterwards extended to the Lowlands of Scotland, was not based on any great triangulation; but was more of the nature of a magnificent military sketch to quote General Roy's own description of his work. The map was never completed, or published, the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in [756 necessitating the employment elsewhere of the Officers engaged upon it.

Although never completed, this survey is important as being the first large military survey undertaken in Great Britain and the forerunner of the Ordnance Survey. In that it marked an official recognition of the necessity of preparing maps of possible theatres of military operations, it may be regarded as the germ of an idea which more than a century later developed into a Military Topographical Department.

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