This century also witnessed two other milestones: the creation of the School of marine cartographers (1717) and the army’s Engineer Corps (1711). The first worked largely in America, although there were some initiatives in Spain; an important example was the work done by Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel on mapping the Spanish coastline, resulting in the publication of a “Hydrographical atlas of the coasts of Spain” in 1789. The plan of the port of Cadiz (221) was part of this project. On the other hand, from an organisational perspective, the engineer corps adopted the French model based on a project presented by Marshal Prosper de Verboom. This Flemish engineer at the service of the Spanish crown, who collaborated with Vauban, from France, also left his mark on some of the military plans found in Sweden. Manuscript 222 draws the Gibraltar Line projected by Prosper Verboom between 1728 and 1735 on the site now housing the town known as La Línea. This image is shown on other plans published both in France and England (223, 224).
