{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@id":"https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vr44q/manifest","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"To His Excellency Genl. Washington, Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States of America","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vr44q/thumbnail","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth:z603vr450","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"viewingHint":"individuals","metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"To His Excellency Genl. Washington, Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States of America : this plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed and laid down"},{"label":"Date","value":"1782"},{"label":"Creator","value":["Contributor",["Scot, Robert, 1745-1823"]]},{"label":"Publisher","value":"Philad : [s.n.]"},{"label":"Type of Resource","value":"Cartographic"},{"label":"Format","value":"Maps"},{"label":"Description","value":"Sebastian Bauman, a topographical engineer who immigrated to North America from Germany, created this map shortly after the British surrender at Yorktown. Dedicated to George Washington, it was the first American-published map of the battle. The plan depicts the British troops (colored red), who were waiting for new supplies and reinforcements, surrounded by the French and American troops (colored yellow and blue). Bauman used pictorial symbols to represent the French navy’s victory over the British in the York River. The lower portion contains a description of the battle embellished with instruments of war and the American flag, one of its earliest representations on a published map."},{"label":"Language","value":"English"},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Gloucester (Va.)--Maps--Early works to 1800","Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Maps--Early works to 1800","Yorktown (Va.)--History--18th century--Maps--Early works to 1800"]},{"label":"Location","value":"George Washington's Mount Vernon"},{"label":"Collection (local)","value":"Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon"},{"label":"Identifier","value":["https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vr44q","06_01_009565"]},{"label":"Terms of Use","value":["No known copyright restrictions.","This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA)."]}],"description":"Sebastian Bauman, a topographical engineer who immigrated to North America from Germany, created this map shortly after the British surrender at Yorktown. Dedicated to George Washington, it was the first American-published map of the battle. The plan depicts the British troops (colored red), who were waiting for new supplies and reinforcements, surrounded by the French and American troops (colored yellow and blue). Bauman used pictorial symbols to represent the French navy’s victory over the British in the York River. The lower portion contains a description of the battle embellished with instruments of war and the American flag, one of its earliest representations on a published map.","attribution":"No known copyright restrictions. This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/","seeAlso":"https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vr44q","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vr44q/canvas/z603vr450","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"image 1","width":5637,"height":8007,"images":[{"@id":"https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vr44q/annotation/z603vr450","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vr450/large_image","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":5637,"height":8007,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth:z603vr450","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vr44q/canvas/z603vr450"}]}]}]}