[A map showing the northern part of Lake George and Fort Ticonderoga]

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

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

1756

Scale not given

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Military art and science--New York (State)--George, Lake (Lake)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• George, Lake (N.Y. : Lake)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Essex (county)
• Fort Ticonderoga
• George, Lake
• North and Central America
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour over pencil ; 35 x 30 cm

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• A date of about 1756 is attributed in previous British Library cataloguing and because the map shows Fort Ticonderoga (or Fort Carillon) before the 1758 Battle of Carillon.
• Relief is shown by shading.
• Fort Ticonderoga is named "Ticonde".
• The "Advanced Guard" is marked at the entrance to The Narrows on Lake George.
• Shows a saw mill.
• A directional pointer surmounted by a fleur de lys orients north to the top of the map.
• Compare with another map from the King's Topographical Collection in a similar hand (Maps K.Top.121.22.).
• Titled "A drawn Plan of the Northern part of Lake George" 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 "A survey of the country between the upper part of Lake George and Fort Ticonderoga; drawn about 1756: 1 f. 2 in. x 1 f." in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.