Rethinking the Anglo-Spanish War of 1625 through Military Cartography: A New Pedro Teixeira Description of the City of Málaga

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article discusses a newly identified seventeenth-century manuscript, a geographical description of the city of Málaga (Spain), that was written in the context of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1625 by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Teixeira Albernaz. The original document, previously known only from a nineteenth-century copy, formed part of a larger project to improve the city’s defences. The manuscript contains the original drawings of six proposed forts, one of them previously unknown. The aims of this article are to describe this manuscript and to compare it with the extant, but different, nineteenth-century copy. The new document adds to our knowledge of both the defensive details of the conflict and Teixeira’s cartographic work.