FORT BEDFORD

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1758–1763]

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Scale approximately 1:480

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Pennsylvania--Bedford--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Pennsylvania--Bedford--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Bedford (Bedford, Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Bedford
• Bedford (county)
• North and Central America
• Pennsylvania
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink ; 47 x 58 cm

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• Date attributed based on location shown (Fort Bedford was constructed in 1758).
• Relief shown by shading.
• Shows title at upper centre.
• Shows scale bar at upper left (40 feet to an inch).
• Shows a sketched profile through the fort (marked "a-b" on the map) at upper left.
• Shows a lettered key at upper left identifying officers' apartments, the guard house, the storehouses, barracks and hopital.
• Compare maps by the same hand - see Add Ms 57,714.6 / Add Ms 57,714.7 / Add Ms 57,714.8 / Add Ms 57,714.9 / Add Ms 57,714.10 / Add Ms 57,714.11.
• Copy at Add Ms 57,714.10. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "10" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 65" in pencil at lower right and "A 30/24" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "3". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/24". Paper watermark shows a shield surmounted by a fleur de lys with "LVG" beneath.