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Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie : ou un détachement de deux mille deux cent hommes sous le G'al LaFayette étois entouré par l'Armée angloise sous les G'als Howe, Clinton et Grant le 28 May 1778 / par M'r Capitaine, A.d.C. du Général LaFayette.

Capitaine du Chesnoy, Michel, 1746-1804.

OTHER TITLES
Title on ms. label affixed to cloth backing: Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie le 28 May 1778

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[1778]

NOTES
Covers Barren Hill and vicinity (Whitemarsh Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa.) with Chestnut Hill and Germantown.

Relief shown by hachures.

Place-names in English.

Pen-and-ink, watercolors, wash, and lead pencil.

Sectioned to 8 panels and mounted on cloth backing to fold to ca. 20 x 14 cm.

Includes descriptive index of American, English, and Hessian military positions.

Gift; Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Lenfest; Jan. 2000.

Scale [ca. 1:31,680].

SUBJECTS
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--Defenses--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
Barren Hill Region (Pa.)--Maps, Topographic--Early works to 1800.
Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
United States--Pennsylvania--Barren Hill Region.
United States--Pennsylvania--Chestnut Hill--Philadelphia.
United States--Pennsylvania--Germantown--Philadelphia.

RELATED NAMES
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834.

MEDIUM
1 map : ms., col., cloth backing ; 35 x 48 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G3824.B26S3 1778 .C3 Vault

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g3824b ar300100 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3824b.ar300100

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