Plan of York Town and Gloucester in Virginia : shewing the works constructed for the defence of those posts by the Rt. Honble: Lieut. General Earl Cornwallis, with the attacks of the combined army of French and rebels under the command of the Generals Count de Rochambaud and Washington which capitulated October 1781
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- Title:
- Plan of York Town and Gloucester in Virginia : shewing the works constructed for the defence of those posts by the Rt. Honble: Lieut. General Earl Cornwallis, with the attacks of the combined army of French and rebels under the command of the Generals Count de Rochambaud and Washington which capitulated October 1781
- Creator:
- Hills, John, (Surveyor)
- Date:
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[1781]
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
- Location:
- Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
- Collection (local):
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Library of Congress Collection
- Subjects:
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Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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York (county)Yorktown
- Extent:
- 1 map : hand col. ; 91 x 59 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).
- Scale:
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Scale ca. 1:5,850
- Language:
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English
- Catalog Record:
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https://lccn.loc.gov/gm71000688
- Notes:
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Manuscript, pen-and-ink (black and red) and watercolor.
Relief shown by shading.
- Notes (date):
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This date is inferred.
- Notes (citation):
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LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1473
- Identifier:
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ar147300