Campagne en Virginie du Major Gâenâeral M'is de LaFayette : ou se trouvent les camps et marches, ainsy que ceux du Lieutenant Gâenâeral Lord Cornwallis en 1781 / par le Major Capitaine, aide de camp du G'l LaFayette.

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Campagne en Virginie du Major Général M'is de LaFayette : ou se trouvent les camps et marches, ainsy que ceux du Lieutenant Général Lord Cornwallis en 1781 / par le Major Capitaine, aide de camp du G'l LaFayette.

Capitaine du Chesnoy, Michel, 1746-1804.

OTHER TITLES
Title on ms. label affixed to cloth backing: Plan d'une partie de la Virginie

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[1781]

NOTES
Covers central Virginia from Orange County in the north to Isle of Wight County in the south, and west to Cumberland County.

Shows selected bridges, houses, churches, taverns, and other points of interest, and includes notes describing dates of military actions in the Yorktown campaign.

Place-names in English, notes in French.

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

Sectioned to 15 panels and mounted on cloth backing to fold to ca. 29 x 22 cm.

Accompanied by text: Précis de la campagne 1781, pour servir à l'intellige'ce & la carte. [6] p. : ms. ; 29 cm.

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

Scale [ca. 1:225,000].

SUBJECTS
Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Virginia--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Maps--Early works To 1800.
Yorktown Region (Va.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
United States--Virginia.
United States--Virginia--Yorktown Region (Va.)

MEDIUM
1 map : ms., col., cloth backing ; 87 x 111 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G3881.S3 1781 .C3 Vault Oversize

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

DIGITAL ID
g3881s ar300600 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3881s.ar300600

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