Talk:Willem Benjamin Craan

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A fact from Willem Benjamin Craan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,901 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Tsar Alexander I of Russia was so impressed with Willem Benjamin Craan’s map of the Battle of Waterloo he awarded the Dutch cartographer a precious ring?

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Image of map

Since the map of Waterloo is so important, why not include a copy in this article. Surely it is so old it must be in the public domain? doncram (talk) 16:54, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SOmeone has to upload it. In WCommons yet? --74.14.21.228 (talk) 06:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I preferred the external link, because one may manipulate the map on that site (zoom in and such). But by all means upload a facsimile image to wikicommons and include it here, someone. I couldn't find a portrait of Craan himself, or, better still, his pretty daughter :-)--Ereunetes (talk) 20:34, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]