| Creator | Lartigue, Pierre-Jérome, 1729-1772 |
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| Date | [1758] |
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| Scale | Scale [ca. 1:7,400] |
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| Language | French |
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| Location | George Washington's Mount Vernon |
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| Collection (local) | Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon |
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| Subjects | - Louisbourg (N.S.)--History--Siege, 1758--Maps--Early works to 1800
- United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Cape Breton Island (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
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| Places | - Canada
- Cape Breton Island
- Louisbourg
- North and Central America
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| Extent | 2 manuscript maps on 1 sheet : hand colored ; 33 x 43 cm. and 33 x 46 cm., on sheet 37 x 108 cm. |
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| 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).
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| Notes | - Relief shown by gradient tints. Depths shown by soundings.
- In French.
- Colored manuscript map of the 1758 siege of Louisbourg showing ships, troop positions, and batteries.
- Includes references to points of interest.
- Oriented with north to the upper right.
- Colored manuscript map of Cape Breton Island showing fortifications and batteries.
- Includes a table listing troop distribution, references to points of interest, and notes.
- This map can be viewed as a georeferenced overlay in an interactive application made especially for We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence http://d2o8owo4k087al.cloudfront.net/index.html?mapId=44a and http://d2o8owo4k087al.cloudfront.net/index.html?mapId=44b.
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