Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Prologue: A Dinner Party for Captain Cook
- 1 Foundations: The Acquisition of Knowledge and Values
- 2 The Map-maker: Developing ‘the Soldier’s Eye’
- 3 The Military Engineer: Raids, Resources and Fortifications
- 4 The Antiquary in the Field: Empathy with the Army of Rome
- 5 The Practical and Sociable Scientist: Hypsometry and the Royal Society
- 6 The Geodesist: Large Triangles and Minuscule Adjustments
- 7 Aftermath and Legacy: The Birth of the Ordnance Survey
- Appendix 1 Chronology
- Appendix 2 General Roy’s Instructions on Reconnoitring
- Appendix 3 Glossary
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliographical References
- Index
Appendix 1 - Chronology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Prologue: A Dinner Party for Captain Cook
- 1 Foundations: The Acquisition of Knowledge and Values
- 2 The Map-maker: Developing ‘the Soldier’s Eye’
- 3 The Military Engineer: Raids, Resources and Fortifications
- 4 The Antiquary in the Field: Empathy with the Army of Rome
- 5 The Practical and Sociable Scientist: Hypsometry and the Royal Society
- 6 The Geodesist: Large Triangles and Minuscule Adjustments
- 7 Aftermath and Legacy: The Birth of the Ordnance Survey
- Appendix 1 Chronology
- Appendix 2 General Roy’s Instructions on Reconnoitring
- Appendix 3 Glossary
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliographical References
- Index
Summary
1722 John Roy marries Mary Stewart, in Carluke
1723 Grizel Roy born
1726 4 May: William Roy born at Miltonhead, Carluke
1728 Susannah Roy born
1730 James Roy born
1745 August: Prince Charles Edward Stewart raises the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan
1746 April: the Jacobite rebellion ends at Culloden
1747 William begins work on the Military Survey of Scotland as a civilian Assistant Quartermaster
1748 December: John Roy dies
1752 The Military Survey is extended to cover southern Scotland. William walks the south-western coast and along the Border
First large-scale surveys of archaeological earthworks
1753 Survey of the Roman fort at Castledykes
1754 Robert Melville discovers Roman camps in Strathmore
1755 Fieldwork on the Roman camps in Strathmore and survey of the Antonine Wall
December: appointed Practitioner Engineer
1756 January: appointed Lieutenant, 53rd (later the 51st) Regiment of Foot
Start of the Seven Years War
Survey of Milford Haven
1757 May: appointed Practitioner Engineer
Survey of the coastline from Christchurch to Whitstable, and of strategic roads in Kent, Sussex and Surrey
Assessment of tactical topography of the Home Counties
Survey of Maiden Castle, Dorset
William Stukeley publishes a commentary on De Situ Britanniae
September: the raid on Rochefort
December: William testifies at the court martial of Sir John Mordaunt
1758 June: the raid on Saint-Malo
To Germany, erecting wharves for the troops at Bremerhaven
1759 In Germany with the 51st. August: the battle at Minden. Promoted to Lieutenant and then to Captain in the Engineers. Captain in the new Corps of Highlanders
August to November: siege of Münster
1760 William’s plan of Minden/Thonhausen published and is cited at the court martial of Lord George Sackville
Mapping in Germany
September: night attack on Zierenberg
November: expedition to Einbeck
1761 October: David Watson dies
November: William promoted to DQMG and Major of Foot
1762 Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of Foot in the army
1763 February: Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years War; William assisting with the repatriation of the troops from Germany
Initial proposal for a British national cartographic survey
1764 Discovery of the Roman camp at Cleghorn. With James Roy in Edinburgh
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- General William Roy, 1726-1790Father of the Ordnance Survey, pp. 270 - 273Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022