Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay

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Item Information

Title:
Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay
Contributor:
Clinton, Henry, Sir, 1738?-1795
Date:
[1780–1789]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Genre:
Manuscript maps
Location:
William L. Clements Library
Collection (local):
William L. Clements Library Collection
Subjects:
Frigates-Pictorial works
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Maps
Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)--Maps
Pennsylvania--Maps
Maryland--Maps
Delaware--Maps
Virginia--Maps
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps
Places:
Chesapeake Bay
Delaware Bay
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
Extent:
1 ms. map ; 37.7 x 25 cm
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Scale:
Scale 1:1,140,480.
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
Catalog record
Notes:
Finished pen and ink map indicating geographical points along the shores of the two bays.
Manuscript notations outside neat line in the hand of Sir Henry Clinton commenting on aspects of the military campaign of 1781.
Detailed drawing of British frigate in Atlantic off entrance to Chesapeake Bay.
Map very similar to Clinton Map 258 of same title.
Clinton Maps 259.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
554
Barcode:
B1938537