PLAN DE LA RIVIERE ET DES FORTS DE CHVAGEN

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[ca. 1760]

[producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:3,200

French

British Library

British Library Collection

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

• Fort Ontario
• New York
• North and Central America
• Oswego
• Oswego (county)
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 36 x 47 cm

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• This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).

• Date suggested as map shows a completed pentagonal Fort Ontario, while Fort Oswego on the oppostite bank of the river is descirbed as being in ruins.
• Relief is shown by shading.
• North is oriented to the bottom of the map, indicated by a compass arrow.
• Shows title and lettered key (A-Q) to left of map.
• Shows a scale bar of toises at lower left.
• Shows a bridge over the River Oswego ("R de Chouagen").
• Copy at Add Ms 57,708.7. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIII. Shows manuscript addition of "7" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 7" in pencil at lower right and "A 30/39" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "15". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso showing "A 30/39". Paper watermark illegible.