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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Tomás López Revisited

"López’s geographical atlas contained substantial positional inaccuracies that made it unreliable for precise military route-finding during the Peninsular War."

The authors document substantial inaccuracies in López's atlas and note that Napoleon's and Wellington's armies were aware of its lack of precision.

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Source title Tomas Lopez's Geographic Atlas of Spain in the Peninsular War: A methodology for determining errors
Source authors José Carlos de San Antonio Gómez; Cristina Velilla Lucini; Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro
Source year 2011
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