PLAN of the Encampement at Lake George the 27th Iuin 1759

Ratzer, Bernard

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

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 with watercolour ; 42 x 34 cm

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• Relief shown by haching and by shading.
• Shows title, with date, at lower left.
• Shows and names troops assembled on the shore of Lake George prior to the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1759.
• Shows Fort William Henry (destroyed) with a dotted outline only.
• Compare Add Ms 57,712.3. 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 57,712.4. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVII. Shows manuscript addition of "4" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 23" in pencil at lower right and "A 30/7" at upper left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "7". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 3". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/7". Paper watermark shows a pro patria within a roundel.