Plan of the siege of Charles Town in South Carolina
:
under command of His Excellence Sir Henry Clinton and under direction of ... Collonel Mount-Crieff as chief ingener, this town was surrendered with capitulation the 12. May 1780 after 6 weeks and 3 days siege
Metadata
Creator
Fennigan, Patrick
Date
[1780]
Scale
Scale ca. 1:11,500
Language
English
Location
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Collection (local)
Library of Congress Collection
Subjects
Charleston (S.C.)--History--Siege, 1780--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places
Charleston
Charleston (county)
North and Central America
South Carolina
United States
Extent
1 manuscript map : hand color 65 x 45 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
Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Oriented with north to the right.
Shows detailed lines of fire for defenders and besiegers.
Ships shown pictorially.
On verso: Siege of Charles Town, South Carolina. Lieut. Finnegan, 16th Regt.