Fort Augusta

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

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

[1756?]

Scale approximately 1:528

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fort Augusta (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Sunbury (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• North and Central America
• Northumberland (county)
• Pennsylvania
• Sunbury
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink ; 32 x 42 cm

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• Includes a descriptive text of the fort and its location at upper right.
• Shows measurements of individual barracks within the fort.
• Shows latitudinal positions for defences outside the fort.
• Shows a well within the fort.
• Varying title to map's verso.
• Titled "A drawn Plan of Fort Augusta in the Susquehanna Riv." 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 plan of Fort Augusta, on the Susquehanna river, at the junction of the north and west branches; drawn about 1756, on a scale of about 40 feet to an inch: 1 f. 4 in. x 1 f. 1 in." in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.