Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie : ou un détachement de deux mille deux cent hommes sous le G'al LaFayette étois entouré par l'Armée angloise sous les G'als Howe, Clinton et Grant le 28 May 1778

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Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie
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Title:
Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie : ou un détachement de deux mille deux cent hommes sous le G'al LaFayette étois entouré par l'Armée angloise sous les G'als Howe, Clinton et Grant le 28 May 1778
Title (alt.):
Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie le 28 May 1778
Creator:
Capitaine du Chesnoy, Michel, 1746-1804
Contributor:
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Name on Item:
par M'r Capitaine, A.d.C. du Général LaFayette
Date:
[1778]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Collection (local):
Library of Congress Collection
Subjects:
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--Defenses--Maps--Early works to 1800
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--Maps, Topographic--Early works to 1800
Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Philadelphia (county) > Philadelphia > Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia (county) > Philadelphia > Germantown
Barren Hill
Extent:
1 map : ms., col., cloth backing ; 35 x 48 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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Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:31,680]
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://lccn.loc.gov/00557030
Notes:
Covers Barren Hill and vicinity (Whitemarsh Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa.) with Chestnut Hill and Germantown.
Relief shown by hachures.
Pen-and-ink, watercolors, wash, and lead pencil.
Sectioned to 8 panels and mounted on cloth backing to fold to ca. 20 x 14 cm.
Includes descriptive index of American, English, and Hessian military positions.
Place-names in English.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
ar300100