[Map showing Fort William Henry, Fort Carillon, Fort St Frederic, and the upper reaches of the Connecticut River]

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[ca. 1755]

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Scale not given

French

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Pennsylvania--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fortification--New York (State)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Connecticut River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• New York (State)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Connecticut
• New York
• North and Central America
• Pennsylvania
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 48 x 37 cm

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• Date from previous British Library cataloguing (and from forts shown).
• Shows Native American nomenclature?
• Shows settlements along the rivers only, no interior geography is shown.
• Shows the overland path beween Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River ("Chemin quele sauvages [?]").
• Copy at Add Ms 57,712.1. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVII. Shows manuscript addition of "1" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 27/40" in pencil at lower right and "A 64" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "18". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 27 SECTION 6". Blue label to verso shows "A 27/40". Illegible annotations to verso in pencil.