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A map of the country in Which the army under Lt. General Burgoyne acted in the campaign of 1777 : sheWing the marches of the army & the places of the principal actions / draWn by Mr. Medcalfe & engraved by Wm. Faden

Description: Kashnor notes, "The route shoWs the passage doWn Lake Champlain to CroWn Point, then south to Ticonderoga, from Whence Burgoyne passed through South Bay to Skeneboro, Which he reached on the 6th of July, and fought the engagement at Fort Ann, on Wood Creek, on 8th July. He is shoWn to have crossed the Hudson at Fort EdWard, and to have reached Half Moon of the MohaWk, but had fought an engagement at Freeman's Farm on Sept. 19, the action at Braemus Heights is dated Oct. 7th, and the final action at Saratoga, 10th October. It Was a famous march, but to have attacked 20,000 men With a force of only 5,000 could have only had one result, and Burgoyne surrendered to Gates on October 17." Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 848.
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Date: 1 February 1780
Call number: 093:848 M
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Plan of the Attack on Fort Sulivan, near Charles Town in South Carolina, by a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, on the 28th of June 1776, with the Dispostion of the King's Land Forces, and the Encampments and Entrenchments of the Rebels he from the Drawings made on the Spot Engraved by Wm. Faden
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Kashnor notes, "Very rare." See also 093-080M for another view of this battle. See 105:079S for duplicate copy. RLIN record may not include subtext from this map. Text of attack extracted from Letters of Sir Peter Parker and Lieut. General Clinton to the Lords of the Admiralty in letterpress below map. Inset map showing: Plan of the Platform in Sulivans Fort, by Lt. Colonel Thos. James of the Rl. Rt. of Artillery. MS note: 81. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Watermark: Block IV. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: Mus. cat.#93 #81.
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Attack of the Rebels upon Fort Penobscott in the Province of New England in which their Fleet was totally destroyed and their Army dispersed the 14th. Augst. 1779. For the Continuation (after Tindal's) of Rapin's History of Egd. Published as the Act directs Decr. 18th 1785. by an Officer present
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A map of the country in Which the army under Lt. General Burgoyne acted in the campaign of 1777 : sheWing the marches of the army & the places of the principal actions / draWn by Mr. Medcalfe & engraved by Wm. Faden

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Plan of the Attack on Fort Sulivan, near Charles Town in South Carolina, by a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, on the 28th of June 1776, with the Dispostion of the King's Land Forces, and the Encampments and Entrenchments of the Rebels he from the Drawings made on the Spot Engraved by Wm. Faden

Attack of the Rebels upon Fort Penobscott in the Province of New England in which their Fleet was totally destroyed and their Army dispersed the 14th. Augst. 1779. For the Continuation (after Tindal's) of Rapin's History of Egd. Published as the Act directs Decr. 18th 1785. by an Officer present