Plan de Pensacolle

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Plan de Pensacolle
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Item Information

Title:
Plan de Pensacolle
Title (alt.):
Plan de Pensacola
Description:
Map of the Pensacola, Florida region illustrating the capture of Forts Pensacola and Santa Rosa by French forces in 1719. Keyed to 11 references, including the forts, Spanish ships, and an anchorage. From French army officer Dumont de Montigny's 1747 manuscript memoire of his experiences in Louisiana between 1715-1737.
Creator:
Dumont de Montigny
Date:
[1747]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Newberry Library
Collection (local):
Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection
Subjects:
Fortification--Florida--Pensacola--Maps--Early works to 1800
Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
Pensacola (Fla.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Florida > Escambia (county) > Pensacola
Extent:
1 ms. map : hand col. ; 171 x 227 mm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
Contact host institution for more information.
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:533,000]
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991477198805867
Notes:
Note on verso: No. 3, page 57.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, red).
No. 3 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
Photostat of related manuscript map in the Service Hydrographique archives in Paris, no. S.H.A. 138-9-6, forms part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library).
Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Call #:
Ayer MS 257 map 3 (NLO)