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Isle Massacre ou Dauphine

Map of the French settlement at Dauphin Island in Mobile Bay as it appeared ca. 1719. Includes drawings of individual buildings and two ships offshore; keyed to numbers 1-17; from army officer Dumont de Montigny's 1747 manuscript memoire of his experiences in Louisiana between 1715-1737.

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Creator

Dumont de Montigny

Date

[1747]

Scale

Scale [ca. 1:200,000]

Language

French

Location

Newberry Library

Collection (local)

Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection

Subjects
  • Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
  • Dauphin Island (Ala.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places
  • Alabama
  • Dauphin Island
  • Mobile (county)
  • North and Central America
  • United States
Extent

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 164 x 217 mm.

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Notes
  • Note on verso: Golphe du Méxìque. No. 2, page 55.
  • Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow).
  • No. 2 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
  • Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.

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