PLAN of FORT LIGONIER with part of the RETRENCHMENT

Skinner, William, 1700-1780

Skinner, Monier

[1758]

[producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:3,600

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Pennsylvania--Fort Ligonier--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Pennsylvania--Fort Ligonier--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Ligonier (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Ligonier
• North and Central America
• Pennsylvania
• United States
• Westmoreland (county)

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 48 x 65

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• Date attributed based on location shown (Fort Ligonier was constructed in 1758).
• Relief shown by shading.
• Shows title at upper left with scale bar beneath (30 feet to an inch).
• Shows lettered key at centre left.
• Shows section through the fort at upper centre (scale approximately 1:60).
• Copy at Add Ms 33,231.NN.7. A roll - laid on linen. Manuscript annotation at lower left in black ink, "Handed over to Lieut. Monier Skinner R. Eng.r by his father in 1872" and initialled (by William Skinner?). Red stamp of British Museum at lower left. Pressmark stamped to verso and repeated in pencil.