2:d Position

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2:d Position
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Item Information

Title:
2:d Position
Former owner:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Date:
[1781]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Chesapeake, Battle of the, Va., 1781--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Military art and science--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Chesapeake Bay
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 45 x 28 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified]
Scale:
Scale not given
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999748
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially (sand banks)
Shows the position of the French and English Fleets during the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781
Shows wind direction
Compare also maps of 1st, 3rd and 4th positions (see Add Ms 57,715.14. / Add Ms 57,715.16. / Add Ms 57,715.17.)
Names "Ville de Paris" in the French Fleet (coloured blue)
Names "S:r Sam:l Hood", "Adm:l Graves" and "Adm:l Drakes" in the English Fleet (coloured red).
Copy at Add Ms 27,715.15. Manuscript "15" added in pencil at upper right. Manuscript "A 57" added in pencil at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "63". Blue label to verso showing "A 30/79C", and annotation repeated in pencil. Additional annotation in pencil shows "30/2". Paper watermark (countermark) shows "I. TAYLOR". A separate title in manuscript ink accompanies all four plans, "Four Positions of the English and French Fleet, as the latter was coming out of Chesapeek Bay".
Notes (date):
9999
This date is inferred.