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Capt. Andrew Engle (attributed to). Manuscript map of West Point, ca. 1779.
This ink-and-watercolor map depicts the topography and fortifications in and around West Point at the time of the Revolutionary War, including Fort Arnold (later named Fort Clinton) and its outlying redoubts overlooking the turn in the Hudson River, Fort Webb and Fort Putnam downriver, and the fortifications on Constitution Island. The famous chain the Americans stretched across the river the control traffic is also shown. The map descended in the family of Capt. Andrew Engle of the Pennsylvania line, and is believed to be his work. [2016]
Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy. Carte du Théatre de la Guerre dans l’Amérique Septentrionale, pendant les Années 1775, 76, 77 et 78. A Paris: Chez Perrier graveur; Chez Fortin ingénieur méchanicien, [1780].
In preparation for his return to France in 1779, General Lafayette asked his aide-to-camp Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy to produce a map summarizing the major events of the American war. Lafayette used this map to bolster his petition to Louis XVI for increased financial support and an expansion of French military aid to the United States. By the summer of 1780, an engraved version of Capitaine’s original map was made available to the public. [2015]
William De Braham. A Map of South Carolina and a Part of Georgia, containing
the Whole Sea-Coast. London: Published by Wm. Faden, June 1st, 1780.
The upper portion of the map bears numerous manuscript annotations made by someone intimately familiar with the area along Congaree River, including local place names and residents and such notes as “A Strong Creek,” “Fordable for Cavalry in very dry weather,” and “very rough strong country.” The identity of the writer has not been determined, but all evidence points to a South Carolinian, whether patriot or loyalist. This state of the map, which was printed before the Battle of Camden, varies significantly from others known in institutional collections, most notably in the detailed rendering of the High Hills of the Santee, which has been completely removed and relocated in the later states of the maps (on which a notation of the Battle of Camden has been added). [2016]
Sebastian Bauman. Plan of the Investment of York and Gloucester. Philadelphia, 1782. Within days of the British surrender at Yorktown, Gen. George Washington directed Maj. Sebastian Bauman of the Second Regiment Continental Artillery to survey the battlefield and encampments. The following year Bauman collaborated with a Philadelphia engraver, Robert Scot, to publish this elegant large-scale map “in order that the public may form
an idea of that memorable siege.” Dedicated to General Washington, Bauman’s plan delineates the topography, fortifications, siege works, positions of the American and British lines, headquarters of the commanding officers and “The Field where the British laid down their Arms.” [2015]
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