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Campement de l'armée à Tombecbe

Map of Fort Confederation (also known as Fort Tombécbee, Fort Tombigbee, and Fort York) on the Tombigbee River near the later site of Epes in Sumter County, Alabama; originally built by the French as a Choctaw Indian trading post. Details the 1736 occupation by French and Choctaw forces during their campaign against Chickasaw Indians allied with the English. Keyed to 9 references.

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Creator

Dumont de Montigny

Date

[1747]

Scale

Scale not given

Language

French

Location

Newberry Library

Collection (local)

Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection

Subjects
  • Choctaw Indians--Wars--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Chickasaw Indians--Wars--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Indians of North America--Warfare--Alabama--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Fortification--Alabama--Fort Confederation--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
  • Fort Confederation (Ala.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Sumter County (Ala.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places
  • Fort Tombecbe (historical)
Extent

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 177 x 268 mm.

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Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Oriented with north at left.
  • Note on verso: No. 10, page 257.
  • Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, gray, brown).
  • No. 10 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. memoir 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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