Plan of the battle of Vigo Bay 23 October 1702 was fought during the early days of the War for Spanish Succession, here engraved by Isaac Basire. English admiral Sir George Rooke along with Dutch forces destroyed a Spanish treasure fleet returning from the colonies and captured tons of silver in the process. A small assumption is made in naming the engraver Isaac as the initial could be read as a ‘J’ for his son James who was not born until 1730. An explanation lower left identifies the key points of the map. From Nicolas Tindal’s ‘Continuation of Mr. Rapin’s History of England’. Shirley, R.W. (BL Atlases) G.RAP 1a, no. 2.