Plan of the siege of Charles Town in South Carolina : under command of His Excellence Sir Henry Clinton and under direction of ... Collonel Mount-Crieff as chief ingener, this town was surrendered with capitulation the 12. May 1780 after 6 weeks and 3 days siege

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Plan of the siege of Charles Town in South Carolina
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Title:
Plan of the siege of Charles Town in South Carolina : under command of His Excellence Sir Henry Clinton and under direction of ... Collonel Mount-Crieff as chief ingener, this town was surrendered with capitulation the 12. May 1780 after 6 weeks and 3 days siege
Creator:
Fennigan, Patrick
Date:
[1780]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Collection (local):
Library of Congress Collection
Subjects:
Charleston (S.C.)--History--Siege, 1780--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Charleston (county) > Charleston
Extent:
1 manuscript map : hand color 65 x 45 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. 1:11,500
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
https://lccn.loc.gov/gm71000887
Notes:
Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Oriented with north to the right.
Shows detailed lines of fire for defenders and besiegers.
Ships shown pictorially.
On verso: Siege of Charles Town, South Carolina. Lieut. Finnegan, 16th Regt.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1556
Identifier:
ar155600