Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie : ou un détachement de deux mille deux cent hommes sous le G'al LaFayette étois entouré par l'Armée angloise sous les G'als Howe, Clinton et Grant le 28 May 1778
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- Title:
- Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie : ou un détachement de deux mille deux cent hommes sous le G'al LaFayette étois entouré par l'Armée angloise sous les G'als Howe, Clinton et Grant le 28 May 1778
- Title (alt.):
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Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie le 28 May 1778
- Creator:
- Capitaine du Chesnoy, Michel, 1746-1804
- Contributor:
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
- Name on Item:
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par M'r Capitaine, A.d.C. du Général LaFayette
- Date:
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[1778]
- 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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Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--Defenses--Maps--Early works to 1800
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--Maps, Topographic--Early works to 1800
Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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Philadelphia (county)PhiladelphiaChestnut Hill
Philadelphia (county)PhiladelphiaGermantown
Barren Hill
- Extent:
- 1 map : ms., col., cloth backing ; 35 x 48 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. 1:31,680]
- Language:
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French
- Catalog Record:
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https://lccn.loc.gov/00557030
- Notes:
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Covers Barren Hill and vicinity (Whitemarsh Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa.) with Chestnut Hill and Germantown.
Relief shown by hachures.
Pen-and-ink, watercolors, wash, and lead pencil.
Sectioned to 8 panels and mounted on cloth backing to fold to ca. 20 x 14 cm.
Includes descriptive index of American, English, and Hessian military positions.
Place-names in English.
- Notes (date):
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This date is inferred.
- Identifier:
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ar300100