Rapin's Map of Port Mahon Author(s)_Marcus Annaeus Lucanus off the coast)

off the coast)

original hand colour with a couple of sites circled in red ink or marked with a cross

Though technically administered jointly by Egypt and Britain between 1899 and 1956

though much remains tentative or speculative

Rapin's Map of Port Mahon Author(s)_Marcus Annaeus Lucanus off the coast)This plan of the town and harbour of Mahon, St. Philips Castle, and its fortifications was engraved by Isaac Basire and published in Nicholas Tindal's continuation of Rapin de Thoyras's History of England. Port Mahon was of enormous strategic importance: it was the largest natural harbour in the Mediterranean, and one of the deepest in the world. Menorca was captured by the British in 1708. It was taken by the French in 1756 (a sequence of events