Plan des Expeditions faites par le Gal. Weissman de l’autre cote du Danube contre Tultschi u Isaktschi.

Title

Plan des Expeditions faites par le Gal. Weissman de l’autre cote du Danube contre Tultschi u Isaktschi.

Description

Map shows General Weissmann's expedition plan in the Danube Delta between Tulcea and Isaccea in Romania and Izmail in Moldavia. There is also an index of the plan in three columns.

ca. 1783

Artist

Tardieu (1746-1816)

Ambroise Tardieu ( 1788 - 1841 in Paris) was an eminent French cartographer and engraver, and is celebrated for his version of John Arrowsmith's 1806 map of the United States. Tardieu's son, Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818-1879), was also an artist and a famous forensic medical scholar, who supplied the illustrations for Dr. Pierre François Olive Rayer's three-volume Traité des maladies des reins (1839-41), a treatise on diseases of the kidneys.

Historical Description

The most important ruler in the 15th century was Ștefan cel Mare, who fought in numerous battles against invasions by the Ottoman Empire, Poland and the Tartars. In 1512, the principality had to submit to the Ottomans and remained a vassal state for the next 300 years. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792, the Ottoman Empire had to cede all its possessions east of the Dniester to Russia. An expanded Bessarabia was integrated into the Russian Empire after the Russo-Turkish War from 1806 to 1812. After Russia's defeat in the Crimean War of 1853-1856, the Principality of Moldavia was placed under the collective guarantee of the seven signatory states, including the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, Sardinia and Russia, in the Treaty of Paris and Wallachia. With the unification of the Danube principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859, the region came under increased Romanian influence. After the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, a Moldavian-Bessarabian regional council was formed, the Sfatul Țării, which proclaimed the Moldavian Democratic Republic in 1917.