Carte generale des colonies angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale pour l'intelligence de la guerre presente : d'apres des manuscrit anglais par J.B. Nolin geographe : corrigé, augmenté des indications des principaux évenemens de la guerre avec le tracee des limites pour constituer le traité de paix proposé entre la Couronne de la Grande Bretagne et les Etats Unis, 1783

Containers:
Closed Stacks, Drawer 38
Creator:
Phelipeau, René, active 1748-1784, Denis, Louis, 1725-1794, Nolin, Jean Baptiste, 1686-1762, and Basset (Firm)
Extent:
1 Sheets
Scope and content:

Shows the boundaries established by the preliminary Treaty of Peace, signed 30 November 1782, and published prior to the signing of the formal Treaty on 3 September 1783. Includes a detailed plan of the Siege of Yorktown.

Language:
French.
Custodial history:

Client reference #249; WAG #289322; IL# 2020-IL-001-136

Cohen and Taliaferro LLC, 5 June 2014.

Material specific details:
Scale approximately 1:5,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: [Ferro]. Insets: Suite de la Floride et la position des isles Lucayes et des Grandes Antilles -- Suplément qui représente la partie de la Virginie, ou se trouvent le theatre ou l'armé combinée des Francois et des Etats Unis a fait prisonnier le General Cornowalis le 19 Octobre 1781, et le plan d'attaque d'Yorck et de Glocester, par les Generaux Washincton et Rochambeau [title at top of inset: Le detail de la baye de Chesapeake / par L. Denis geographe et auteur du conducteur francois]. Includes historical notes.
Physical description:
Some foxing in margins, narrow top and bottom margins.
Physical facet:
1 map : hand colored
Dimensions:
50 x 70 cm
Other descriptive data:

Paris : Chez Basset, 1783

Related material:

LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 751 Wooldridge, W. Mapping Virginia, 152 and 152a

Access and use

Location of collection:
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Reference services
Phone: (703) 780-3600
Parent restrictions:
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