Plan of Fort le Quesne, built by the French at the fork of the Ohio and Monongahela in 1754

Containers:
Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section 3
Creator:
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, Jefferys, Thomas, -1771, and Stobo, Robert, 1726-1770
Extent:
1 Sheets
Language:
English .
Custodial history:

Client reference #58; WAG #289213; IL# 2020-IL-001-177

William Reese Company, 11 April 2011.

Material specific details:
Scale [ca. 1:2,500]. Based on the plan drawn by Robert Stobo while a prisoner of the French in 1754. Table of references identifies buildings and features of the fort. "This plan was sent from America, as it had been taken by some curious French deserters." Inset: [Cross-section of fort wall]. Appears in Jefferys' General topography of North America and the West Indies. London: Printed for Robert Sayer, ... and Thomas Jefferys, 1768.
Physical facet:
1 map
Dimensions:
33 x 31 cm
Other descriptive data:

[London] : Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street and Thos. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane in the Strand, 1768

Related material:

Phillips, P. List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress, p. 268. Philips 1196

Access and use

Location of collection:
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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