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Campagne en Virginie du Major Général M'is de LaFayette : ou se trouvent les camps et marches, ainsy que ceux du Lieutenant Général Lord Cornwallis en 1781

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Creator	Capitaine du Chesnoy, Michel, 1746-1804
Contributor	Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Date	[1781]
Name on Item	par le Major Capitaine, aide de camp du G'l LaFayette
Scale	Scale [ca. 1:225,000]
Language	French
Location	Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Collection (local)	Library of Congress Collection
Subjects	Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800 Virginia--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800 Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Maps--Early works To 1800
Places	North and Central America United States Virginia York (county) Yorktown
Extent	1 map : ms., col., cloth backing ; 87 x 111 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	Covers central Virginia from Orange County in the north to Isle of Wight County in the south, and west to Cumberland County. Shows selected bridges, houses, churches, taverns, and other points of interest, and includes notes describing dates of military actions in the Yorktown campaign. Pen-and-ink, watercolors, wash, and lead pencil. Sectioned to 15 panels and mounted on cloth backing to fold to ca. 29 x 22 cm. Accompanied by text: Précis de la campagne 1781, pour servir à l'intellige'ce & la carte. [6] p. : ms. ; 29 cm. Place-names in English, notes in French.