Sketch of Fort Edward and the proposed improvements

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

1757–1759

Scale approximately 1:7,200

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--New York (State)--Fort Edward--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--New York (State)--Fort Edward--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Edward (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Fort Edward
• New York
• North and Central America
• United States
• Washington (county)

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with grayscale watercolour ; 23 x 36 cm

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• Previous British Library cataloguing has dated the map about 1758. Improvements to Fort Edward were carried out between 1756 and 1759, and construction on Rogers Island (shown on this map) took place in 1757 and 1758 - http://www.rogersisland.org/programs/HISTORY%20OF%20FORT%20EDWARD%20AND%20ROGERS%20ISLAND.pdf
• With a scale at upper right where 200 yards are equal to one inch.
• A compass arrow orients north to the left of the map.
• Shows fortifications on Rogers Island.
• A note on the map reads "The Fort ought to have been positioned here" - located on the east bank, north of Rogers Island.
• Titled "A drawn sketch of Fort Edward and the proposed improvements" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
• Titled 'A "sketch of Fort Edward and the proposed improvements;" drawn about 1758, on a scale of 200 yards to an inch: 1 f. 2 in. x 9 in.' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.