Carte Du Lac ontario nouvellement Rellevé avec ces port a grand pois a bitté Lescadre Engloisse & francoisse Leur gremant Leur Cantité de Canon

La Broquerie, Pierre Boucher de

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

1757

Scale approximately 1:1,093,700

French

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--New York (State)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Lakes--New York (State)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Ontario (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Old Fort Niagara (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Frontenac (Ont.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Canada
• Fort Ontario
• Kingston
• New York
• Niagara (county)
• North and Central America
• Old Fort Niagara
• Ontario
• Ontario, Lake
• Oswego (county)
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 39 x 51 cm

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• Sounding depths are given in the inset harbour plans.
• With a scale at lower right "Echelle de 20 Lieu Marine" where five nautical lieu are equal to one inch.
• The central map of Lake Ontario is oriented with north to the bottom of the map, indicated by a decorative compass rose.
• The map of Lake Ontario is inset with three maps of Fort Ontario, Fort Niagara and Fort Frontenac in three of the four corners, and the map's title is in the fourth corner.
• Inset illustrations of the English and French fleets are given at the top and bottom of the map.
• The French fleet includes "La huralt" (Hurault) of whom Pierre Boucher de la Broquerie was the commanding officer - Malcomson, Robert. Warships of the Great Lakes.
• A nineteenth-century printed copy of the map (about 1890) was published with the title "MAP OF LAKE ONTARIO Showing places on its shores, 1757, with pictures of the English and French fleets on the lake in 1756-7. Also the territory around Fort Frontenac, Cataraqui, near Kingston, Fort Niagara, Fort Ontario, (Oswego). From the original drawing in the British Museum" in an unidentified Canadian work - a catalogue listing from Alexandre Antique Maps in Toronto, Ontario illustrate a copy online at http://www.alexandremaps.com/backoffice/Pictures/m_0_bc4218172f722f9a373d45aa13fc974d_1243453295.jpg (website viewed 2013).
• Titled "Carte dessinée du Lac Ontario, par Labroquerie, 4 Oct.re 1757" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
• Titled "Carte du Lac Ontario, nouvellement rellevé, avec ces port à grend poit abittée, l'escadre Engloisse et Francoisse, leur gremamt, leur cantité de canon; faitte à Frontenac ce 4 Octobre, 1757, par .... Labroqueril;" drawn on a scale of 5 marine leagues to an inch; with charts of the ports of Fort Niagara, Fort Ontario, and Fort Frontenac, on a larger scale: 1 f. 8 in. x 1 f. 4 in." in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.