[Plan of proposed Fort Ontario at Oswego]
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Item Information
- Title:
- [Plan of proposed Fort Ontario at Oswego]
- Cartographer:
- Brasier, William
- Former owner:
- Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
- Former owner:
- Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
- Name on Item:
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W. B. Del.t.
- Date:
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[1759]
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
- British Library
- Collection (local):
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British Library Collection
- Subjects:
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Fortification--New York (State)--Oswego--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Military art and science----New York (State)--Oswego--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fort Ontario (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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Oswego (county)Fort Ontario
Oswego (county)Oswego
- Extent:
- 1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 39 x 31 cm
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
- Publisher:
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[Place of production not identified] :
W. B. Del.t.
- Scale:
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Scale approximately 1:2,400
- Language:
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English
- Catalog Record:
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http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999738
- Notes:
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Relief shown by shading.
Untitled but initiitialled at lower right, "W. B. Del.t".
Shows the proposed fort for 500 men (Fort Ontario) on the east bank of the Oswego River ("Part of the Onondaugar River").
A lettered key at centre right identifies the "Retrenched Battery" and "Blockhouse" on the opposite side of the river.
Shows scale bar at lower left, "The Scale 200 Feet to an Inch".
Copy at Add Ms 57,708.3. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIII. Shows manuscript addition of "3" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 74" in pencil at lower left and "A 30/56" at upper left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "33". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso showing "A 30/56". Paper watermark shows a horn within a shield, surmounted by a crown, with "LVG" beneath.
- Notes (date):
-
9999
This date is inferred.
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