[Plan de defense de New-Port] : [dans l'Isle Rhode (Amerique Septentrionalle) par l'escadre du Roy aux ordres de Monsieur le Chr. de Ternay, chef d'escadre des armées navalles, Chu. de St. Jean de Jerusalem. Ainsi que de la position, et du camp de l'armée franc̦aise aux ordres de Monsieur le Comte de Rochambeau, Grand- croix de l'Ordre Royal et Miitaire de St. Louis, lieutenant général des armées de sa Majesté en 1780

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Title:
[Plan de defense de New-Port] : [dans l'Isle Rhode (Amerique Septentrionalle) par l'escadre du Roy aux ordres de Monsieur le Chr. de Ternay, chef d'escadre des armées navalles, Chu. de St. Jean de Jerusalem. Ainsi que de la position, et du camp de l'armée franc̦aise aux ordres de Monsieur le Comte de Rochambeau, Grand- croix de l'Ordre Royal et Miitaire de St. Louis, lieutenant général des armées de sa Majesté en 1780
Title (alt.):
Plan de defense de Newport
Description:
Incomplete nineteenth century map tracing of Rhode Island and Narraganestt Bay. Traced from a 1780 manuscript compiled by Lieutenant Mullon, an officer in the French navy. Shows the French fleet commanded by Charles Louis d'Arsac, Chevalier de Ternay as stationed at Newport between 1780-1781, and the camps and fortifications of the army under Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau. Lacks legend to lettered sites found on original.
Creator:
Mullon, Lieutenant, fl. 1780
Name on Item:
fecit Mullon, lieutenant de fregate auxiliaire a bord l'Hermione]
Date:
[1800–1899]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Newberry Library
Collection (local):
Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection
Subjects:
Anglo-French War, 1778-1783--Naval operations--Maps
Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
Newport (R.I.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Narragansett Bay (R.I.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Rhode Island--Maps--Early works to 1800
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations--Maps
Ternay, Charles Henry Louis d'Arsac, chevalier de, 1723-1780
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807
Places:
Rhode Island > Bristol (county) > Narragansett Bay
Rhode Island > Newport (county) > Newport
Extent:
1 ms. map ; on sheet 705 x 1,156 mm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
Contact host institution for more information.
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:39,500]
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991447208805867
Notes:
Title from photostat of Ministere des Colonies manuscript map no. 22 in the Archives Coloniales of France.
Pen-and-ink and pencil. Drawn on two sheets; map on tracing paper continued on larger sheet of light cardboard used as backing. Sectioned into 34 panels, mounted on cloth.
Limited relief shown with contour lines.
Reduced photostat of original manuscript forms part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library).
Notes (date):
[18--]
This date is inferred.
Call #:
Ayer MS map 234 (NLO)