Plan of the communication from Fort Cumberland to Presqu'Isle

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1760–1763]

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Scale approximately 1:316,800

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Ohio River Valley--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Ohio River Valley--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• North and Central America
• Ohio River
• United States

1 map on 2 sheets : joined, manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 99 x 42 cm

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• Date attributed from inclusion of Fort Venango. Unsigned.
• Relief shown pictorially.
• Shows forts and military locations; Fort Presque Isle, Fort Le Boeuf, Fort Venango, Fort Pitt, Fort Burd (also known as Redstone), and Fort Cumberland.
• Shows roads and "General Braddock's Road".
• Shows scale bar at lower centre, "Scale of 50 Miles".
• Compare Add Ms 57,714.2. and Add Ms 57,714.4. for similar maps by another hand.
• Compare Maps K.Top. 121.15.2. showing similar detail.
• Copy at Add Ms 57,714.4. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXIX. Shows manuscript addition of "4" in pencil at lower right. Shows "A 19" in pencil at upper right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "9". Manuscript addtion to verso in pencil show "Drawer 29 section 3". Blue label to verso shows "A 29/50". Paper watermark shows "Gerrevink".