A plan of Fort Montgomery & Fort Clinton, taken by His Majesty's forces, under the command of Maj. Genl. Sir Henry Clinton, K:B


A plan of Fort Montgomery & Fort Clinton, taken by His Majesty's forces, under the command of Maj. Genl. Sir Henry Clinton, K:B

Item Information

Title:
A plan of Fort Montgomery & Fort Clinton, taken by His Majesty's forces, under the command of Maj. Genl. Sir Henry Clinton, K:B
Title (alt.):
Plan of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton
Creator:
Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801
Contributor:
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
Name on Item:
survey'd by Major Holland, Survr. Genl. &c.
Date:
1779
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
Fort Montgomery State Historic Site (Highlands, N.Y.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Hudson Highlands (N.Y.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Hudson River
Orange (county)Hudson Highlands State Park
Orange (county)Fort Montgomery
Extent:
1 map : hand col. ; 39 x 75 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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Publisher:
[London] : J.F.W. Des Barres, Esqr.
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:18,000]
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Relief shown by shading and hachures.
"Publish'd as the Act directs ..."
From volume five of Des Barres' Atlantic Neptune.
Scale statement based on description in LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1191.
Scale not [ca. 1:6,000] as depicted by bar scale.
Watermark: JB, J Bates.
Includes ancillary map overlapping main map: Part of Hudsons River, shewing the position of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton : with the chevaux de frieze, cables, chains, & c to obstruct the passage of His Majesty's forces up the river / by Lieut. John Knight of the Royal Navy, in 1777. Scale [ca. 1:60,000]. Hand col. ; 45 x 30 cm. Depths shown by soundings.
Identifier:
06_01_010110