4:th Position

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1781]

[producer not identified]

Scale not given

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Chesapeake, Battle of the, Va., 1781--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Chesapeake Bay
• North and Central America
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 45 x 28 cm

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• Relief shown pictorially (sand banks)
• Shows the position of the French and English Fleets during the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781
• Shows wind direction
• Compare also maps of 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions (see Add Ms 57,715.14. / Add Ms 57,715.15. / Add Ms 57,715.16.)
• Names "S:r Sam:l Hood", "Adm:l Graves" and "Adm:l Drakes" in the English Fleet (coloured red).
• Copy at Add Ms 27,715.17. Manuscript "17" added in pencil at upper right. Manuscript "A 57" added in pencil at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "63". Blue label to verso showing "A 30/79B", and annotation repeated in pencil. Additional annotation in pencil shows "30/2". Paper watermark (countermark) shows "I. TAYLOR". A separate title in manuscript ink accompanies all four plans, "Four Positions of the English and French Fleet, as the latter was coming out of Chesapeek Bay".