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Plan of the siege of Charles Town in South Carolina : under command of His Excellence Sir Henry Clinton and under direction of ... Collonel Mount-Crieff as chief ingener, this town was surrendered with capitulation the 12. May 1780 after 6 weeks and 3 days siege

Metadata

Creator	Fennigan, Patrick
Date	[1780]
Scale	Scale ca. 1:11,500
Language	English
Location	Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Collection (local)	Library of Congress Collection
Subjects	Charleston (S.C.)--History--Siege, 1780--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places	Charleston Charleston (county) North and Central America South Carolina United States
Extent	1 manuscript map : hand color 65 x 45 cm.
Terms and License	No known copyright restrictions. This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
Notes	Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Shows detailed lines of fire for defenders and besiegers. Ships shown pictorially. On verso: Siege of Charles Town, South Carolina. Lieut. Finnegan, 16th Regt.