[Campement] de l'armée franc̦oise [devant u]n village des ennemis, les Chicachas le 26 [de mais] 1736

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[Campement] de l'armée franc̦oise [devant u]n village des ennemis, les Chicachas le 26 [de mais] 1736
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Title:
[Campement] de l'armée franc̦oise [devant u]n village des ennemis, les Chicachas le 26 [de mais] 1736
Description:
Map of the Battle of Ackia detailing failed 1736 attack by Choctaw and French allies led by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville against a Chickasaw village and English allies. Fought about 7 miles northwest of the later site of Tupelo in Lee County, Mississippi. Keyed to references A-L.
Creator:
Dumont de Montigny
Date:
[1747]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Newberry Library
Collection (local):
Roger S. Baskes Collection
Subjects:
Ackia, Battle of, Miss., 1736--Maps--Early works to 1800
Choctaw Indians--Wars--Maps--Early works to 1800
Chickasaw Indians--Wars--Maps--Early works to 1800
Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750--Maps--Early works to 1800
Indians of North America--Warfare--Mississippi--Maps--Early works to 1800
Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
Lee County (Miss.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Mississippi > Lee (county)
Extent:
1 ms. map : hand col. ; on sheet 209 x 323 mm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
Contact host institution for more information.
Scale:
Scale not given
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991477288805867
Notes:
Damaged: lacking portions of title and key.
Relief shown pictorially.
Oriented with north at right.
Note on verso: No. 11, page 263.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, gray, red, yellow).
No. 11 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Call #:
Ayer MS 257 map 11 (NLO)