Pieter Schenk (I), Surprise and recapture of Ghent
Ghent is the capital of the Belgian province of East Flanders and of the district of Ghent.
The Siege of Ghent (18-30 December 1708) was the last operation of the 1708 war season during the War of the Spanish Succession. After having captured Lille shortly before, Duke John Churchill of Marlborough laid siege to Ghent, where Governor Count de la Motte surrendered the city after twelve days.
Petrus Schenck (Elberfeld, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia 26 December 1660 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany 1711) was a German engraver and mapmaker. Together with his son of the same name, Pieter Schenk (II), Schenck was one of the most important figures of Saxon cartography in the first half of the 18th century.
Petrus Schenck spent his apprenticeship or joined the Amsterdam engraver and map publisher Gerard Valck. Schenck lived in the Jordaan on the Lauriergracht. Around 1700, he settled in Leipzig as a globetrotter, mapmaker and art dealer.
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