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[[encircled 104 in blue ink]]   PLA 36]
[[double line frame around drawings]]
PIECES DE 12

[[sketches of three gun emplacements]]

En avant
[[image: bird's eye view of a cannon with what appear to be restaining ropes and anchors (circles, some yellow, some not) attached to and in front of the cannon.  Some circles behind the cannon, and what may be an ammunition box]]

En Retraite
[[image: bird's eye view of a cannon with what appear to be restaining ropes and anchors (circles, some yellow, some not) attached to and behind the cannon, and what may be an ammunition box. Two yellow circles in front of cannon]]

[[image: bird's eye view of cannon surrounded by four circles, and nine circles behind the cannon arranged in U formation, two white, seven yellow, and what may be an ammunition box]]

[[image: scale divided into three five foot sections, the first section divided into five, labeled 15 pied]]

[[double line across page]]
[[top image: a rope with a loop at one end and leather strap loop at the other end]]

Echelle dun pouce pour pied poue les bricoles
[[image: scale divided into six divisions numbered 0, 1, ?, 2, ?, ?, labeled 3 p]]

[[bottom image: a rope with a loop at one end and leather strap loop joined with a rope loop at the other end]]

Transcription Notes:
mandc: the lower scale markings make no logical sense, but it might be a three inch scale divided into 1/2 inch increments. The ropes are probably tie-down lines for anchoring the cannons in various stages of battle.