PLAN of the Encampment Intrenchment with thier Environs at LAKE GEORGE

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[ca. 1759]

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Scale approximately 1:7,200

English

British Library

British Library Collection

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

• Lake George
• New York
• North and Central America
• United States
• Warren (county)

1 map : manuscript pen and ink ; 37 x 33 cm

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• Suggested date from detail shown - Fort William Henry is no longer standing (complete) on the map and troops are assembled (prior to the attack on Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759?).
• Consider Bernard Ratzer as cartographer - previous British Library cataloguing.
• Relief shown by shading and hachuring.
• Shows title in surround at lower left.
• Compare Add Ms 57,712.4. showing similar detail.
• Compare "Plan of the encampment, intrenchment with theier [sic] environs at Lake George" held by the William L. Clements Library (see Brun 419).
• Copy at Add Ms 57,712.3. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVII. Shows manuscript addition of "3" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 23" in pencil at lower right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "9". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 3". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/9". Evidence of old folds. Paper watermark shows a horn within a shield with "LVG" beneath. Countermark shows "LV".