L'escadre françoise entrant dans Newport sous le feu des batteries et forcant le passage le 8 Aoust 1778 : jour que les Américains passerent sur l'Isle de Rode Island par le chemin d'howland's ferry
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- Title:
- L'escadre françoise entrant dans Newport sous le feu des batteries et forcant le passage le 8 Aoust 1778 : jour que les Américains passerent sur l'Isle de Rode Island par le chemin d'howland's ferry
- Creator:
- Ozanne, Pierre, 1737-1813
- 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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Rhode Island, Battle of, R.I., 1778--Aerial views--Early works to 1800
Newport Region (R.I.)--Defenses--Aerial views--Early works to 1800
Rhode Island (R.I. : Island)--Defenses--Aerial views--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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Rhode IslandNewport (county)Newport
- Extent:
- 1 ms. view : col. ; 25 x 41 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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Not drawn to scale
- Language:
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French
- Catalog Record:
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https://lccn.loc.gov/2010589350
- Notes:
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Relief shown pictorially.
Oriented with north to the left.
Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and gilt.
Includes index to defenses and points of interest.
Note at bottom: Nta. les anglois brulereus ou coulereus a Rode Island, les frigates l'Orphée, le Lark en la flore de 32 canons, le Cerbere en le Faucon de 28 sans parler d'un grand nombre de batiments Marchands.
Imperfect: Mostly indecipherable pencil annotation on verso.
- Notes (date):
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This date is inferred.
- Identifier:
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ct003218
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