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Plan de Pensacolle

Map of the Pensacola, Florida region illustrating the capture of Forts Pensacola and Santa Rosa by French forces in 1719. Keyed to 11 references, including the forts, Spanish ships, and an anchorage. From French 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. 1:533,000]

Language

French

Location

Newberry Library

Collection (local)

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

Subjects
  • Fortification--Florida--Pensacola--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
  • Pensacola (Fla.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places
  • Escambia (county)
  • Florida
  • North and Central America
  • Pensacola
  • United States
Extent

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 171 x 227 mm.

Terms and License
  • No known copyright restrictions.
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Notes
  • Note on verso: No. 3, page 57.
  • Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, red).
  • No. 3 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]
  • Photostat of related manuscript map in the Service Hydrographique archives in Paris, no. S.H.A. 138-9-6, forms part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library).
  • 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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