PLAN of FORT NIAGARA With its Buildings & outworks

Demler, George

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

1761

Laid down 2d May 1761 by Geo: Demler.

Laid down 2d May 1761 by Geo: Demler,

Scale approximately 1:2,200

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--New York (State)--Old Fort Niagara--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science----New York (State)--Old Fort Niagara--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Old Fort Niagara (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• New York
• Niagara (county)
• North and Central America
• Old Fort Niagara
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 43 x 55 cm

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• Relief shown by shading and by hachuring.
• Shows title at upper left with descriptive text beneath. Also shows George Demler's signature and the date.
• Shows gardens.
• Shows roads.
• Shows scale bar at lower centre in feet.
• Inset at lower left with a profile drawing through the fort including its own scale bar (scale approximately 1:120).
• Copy at Add Ms 57,708.12. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIII. Shows manuscript addition of "12" in pencil at upper right. Laid on archival tissue. "A30/53B" in blue crayon to verso. Paper watermark shows a diagonal stripe within a shield, with "LVG" beneath.