Baillieul's Paris plan of the battle won near Peterwaradin, dedicated to the Duke of Orleans as Regent. The title reckons the Turkish loss at close to forty thousand men including the Grand Vizier, with 156 guns and mortars, 172 standards, five horsetails, three pairs of kettledrums and quantities of horses, buffalo and camels. The fortress and its retrenchments hold the centre, the Turkish approaches, batteries and camp spreading toward Carlowitz. Bridges by which the imperial army crossed run to a bridgehead fort, the ground beside the fortress is lettered Granges des Paysans, Maisons des Juifs and Potence, and Camentth Village stands with its church at the lower right.
Published by Sanson, Paris · Published by Baillieul, Paris
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
Lieux ou est l'ovue Camp er l'Armée Imperialle Le 6.e Aoust et on a chantée le Tedeum en action de Grace du Gain de la Bataille / chez le Sr. Sanson rue Fremanteau et / A PARIS chez le Sr. BAILLIEUL Geographe atenant le Grand Monarque Sur le Petit Pont
The place where the Imperial army was encamped on 6 August, and where the Te Deum was sung in thanksgiving for the winning of the battle. At Paris, at Mr Sanson's in the rue Fremanteau, and at Mr Baillieul's, geographer, at the sign of the Grand Monarque on the Petit Pont.
- Date
- 1716
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Europeana /9200517/ark__12148_btv1b8493319m
- Credit
- National Library of France via Europeana
- Licence
- No copyright, other legal restrictions
- Size
- 8133 × 6590 px
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