Campagne en Virginie du Major Général M'is de LaFayette : ou se trouvent les camps et marches, ainsy que ceux du Lieutenant Général Lord Cornwallis en 1781

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Campagne en Virginie du Major Général M'is de LaFayette
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Title:
Campagne en Virginie du Major Général M'is de LaFayette : ou se trouvent les camps et marches, ainsy que ceux du Lieutenant Général Lord Cornwallis en 1781
Title (alt.):
Plan d'une partie de la Virginie
Creator:
Capitaine du Chesnoy, Michel, 1746-1804
Contributor:
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Name on Item:
par le Major Capitaine, aide de camp du G'l LaFayette
Date:
[1781]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Collection (local):
Library of Congress Collection
Subjects:
Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800
Virginia--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Maps--Early works To 1800
Places:
York (county) > Yorktown
Extent:
1 map : ms., col., cloth backing ; 87 x 111 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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Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:225,000]
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://lccn.loc.gov/00558784
Notes:
Covers central Virginia from Orange County in the north to Isle of Wight County in the south, and west to Cumberland County.
Shows selected bridges, houses, churches, taverns, and other points of interest, and includes notes describing dates of military actions in the Yorktown campaign.
Pen-and-ink, watercolors, wash, and lead pencil.
Sectioned to 15 panels and mounted on cloth backing to fold to ca. 29 x 22 cm.
Accompanied by text: Précis de la campagne 1781, pour servir à l'intellige'ce & la carte. [6] p. : ms. ; 29 cm.
Place-names in English, notes in French.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
ar300600z