Plan du port et de la ville de Louisbourg : avec ses batteries et sa perspective, où est réprésenté les batteries faites par les anglais pour l'attaque de la ditte ville

[1745?]

Scale [ca. 1:11,300]

French

Newberry Library

Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana

• Fortification--Nova Scotia--Louisbourg--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800
• Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
• Louisbourg (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Louisbourg (N.S.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
• Cape Breton Island (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Louisbourg (N.S.)--History--Siege, 1745--Maps--Early works to 1800
• United States--History--King George's War, 1744-1748--Campaigns--Maps--Early works to 1800

• Canada
• Cape Breton Island
• Louisbourg
• North and Central America
• Nova Scotia

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 312 x 766 mm. on sheet 551 x 1,403 mm.

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• Includes inset map (187 x 276 mm.): Isle royale; and 2 views (171 x 1,321 mm. and 114 x 272 mm.): Veüe de la ville de Loüisbourg, and, Veüe de la batterie royale.
• Oriented to the northeast.
• Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, red, gray); sectioned and mounted on cloth.
• Related to ms. in the Archives du Service Hydrographique (Paris), no. SHA 131-11-6. Reproduced as plate 5 in Baker, Raymond F. A campaign of amateurs : the siege of Louisbourg, 1745 (Canadian historic sites ; no. 18) Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, 1978.