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Plan of Fort le Quesne, built by the French at the fork of the Ohio and Monongahela in 1754

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Creator	Stobo, Robert, 1726-1770
Contributor	Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Contributor	Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date	[1768]
Publisher	Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street and Thos. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane in the Strand
Scale	Scale [ca. 1:2,500]
Language	English
Location	George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local)	Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects	Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Maps--Early works to 1800 Fort Duquesne (Pa.)--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places	Allegheny (county) North and Central America Pennsylvania Pittsburg United States
Extent	1 map ; 33 x 31 cm.
Terms and License	No known copyright restrictions. This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
Notes	Based on the plan drawn by Robert Stobo while a prisoner of the French in 1754. Table of references identifies buildings and features of the fort. "This plan was sent from America, as it had been taken by some curious French deserters." Inset: [Cross-section of fort wall]. Appears in Jefferys' General topography of North America and the West Indies. London: Printed for Robert Sayer, ... and Thomas Jefferys, 1768.