Plan of York Town and Gloucester in Virginia : shewing the works constructed for the defence of those posts by the Rt. Honble: Lieut. General Earl Cornwallis, with the attacks of the combined army of French and rebels under the command of the Generals Count de Rochambaud and Washington which capitulated October 1781

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Plan of York Town and Gloucester in Virginia
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Title:
Plan of York Town and Gloucester in Virginia : shewing the works constructed for the defence of those posts by the Rt. Honble: Lieut. General Earl Cornwallis, with the attacks of the combined army of French and rebels under the command of the Generals Count de Rochambaud and Washington which capitulated October 1781
Creator:
Hills, John, (Surveyor)
Date:
[1781]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Collection (local):
Library of Congress Collection
Subjects:
Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
York (county) > Yorktown
Extent:
1 map : hand col. ; 91 x 59 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. 1:5,850
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
https://lccn.loc.gov/gm71000688
Notes:
Manuscript, pen-and-ink (black and red) and watercolor.
Relief shown by shading.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1473
Identifier:
ar147300