A plan of York Town and Gloucester, in the province of Virginia, shewing the works constructed for the defence of those posts by the British army, under the command of Lt. Genl. Earl Cornwallis, together with the attacks and operations of the American and French forces, commanded by Genl. Washington and Count Rochambeau, to whom the posts were surrendered on the 17th October 1781

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Title:
A plan of York Town and Gloucester, in the province of Virginia, shewing the works constructed for the defence of those posts by the British army, under the command of Lt. Genl. Earl Cornwallis, together with the attacks and operations of the American and French forces, commanded by Genl. Washington and Count Rochambeau, to whom the posts were surrendered on the 17th October 1781
Creator:
Hills, John, surveyor
Publisher:
Faden, William, 1749-1836
Name on Item:
from an actual survey in the possession of Jn.o Hills, late Lieutt. in the 23rd Regt. & Asst. Engr.
Date:
1785
Format:
Maps
Location:
George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Maps
Gloucester (Va.)--History--18th century--Maps
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807
Places:
Virginia > Gloucester (county) > Gloucester
Virginia > York (county) > Yorktown
Extent:
1 map ; 71 x 54 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z603vt64m
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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Publisher:
London : Wm. Faden
Scale:
Scale [ca.1:5,750]
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Shows fortifications, troop locations, and ships on the York River.
Relief shown by hachures.
Identifier:
06_01_009558

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Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Richard H. Brown is a collector of maps pertaining to the American Revolutionary War era. Approximately 300 maps from his collection, containing a number of rare printed maps and unique manuscript maps, have been digitized and are included in this digital collection. A number of his maps are illustrated in a recent publication that he co-authored with Paul Cohen, Revolution: Mapping the Road to America’s Independence, 1755-1783 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2015). Richard is a member of the Board of Directors of the Leventhal Map & Education Center. The map collection is permanently housed at ... more