Reconnoissance, juillet, 1781
Frog's Pointe
Long Island, destinée à battre le continent
cartographic
map
dcu
1781
monographic
[1781]
fre
col. map on sheet 38 x 47 cm.
"This manuscript map in pen-and-ink and watercolor was probably created in 1781 by a French military cartographer engaged in reconnaissance work during the final stages of the American Revolutionary War. The map is oriented with north to the right. The British captured New York in September 1776. In the summer of 1781, General George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, considered an attack on New York, but he and the Comte de Rochambeau instead feigned preparations for an attack on the city while stealthily moving their troops to Yorktown, Virginia. There, the British under General Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) were forced to surrender in what proved to be the climactic battle of the Revolutionary War. The map depicts British defenses on Long Island and the command by a French battery of "Frogs Pointe," a spit of land in the Bronx. Scale is indicated in toises, an old French unit measuring about 1.95 meters. Here one pouce (2.4 centimeters) is equal to 600 toises, or 1.17 kilometers. The map is from the Rochambeau Collection at the Library of Congress, which consists of 40 manuscript maps, 26 printed maps, and a manuscript atlas that belonged to Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), commander in chief of the French expeditionary army (1780-82) during the American Revolution. Some of the maps were used by Rochambeau during the war. Dating from 1717 to 1795, the maps cover much of eastern North America, from Newfoundland and Labrador in the north to Haiti in the south. The collection includes maps of cities, maps showing Revolutionary War battles and military campaigns, and early state maps from the 1790s." World Digital Library.
Has watermarks.
Manuscript title from label on verso as originally mounted: Plan d'une batterie de Long Island, destinée à battre le continent [i.e. Frog's Pointe]
Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Oriented with north toward the lower right.
Relief shown by hachures.
Shows command of "Frogs Pointe" by a battery and two other points on Long Island.
Title on verso: Frog's Pointe.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Scale ca. 1:75,000.
Throgs Neck (N.Y. : Cape)
History
Revolution, 1775-1783
Maps
Early works to 1800
United States
New York (State)
Throgs Neck (N.Y. : Cape)
G3802.T57S3 1781 .R4
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3802t.ar121800
[Rochambeau collection
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LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789,
1218
gm 71000995
hdl:loc.gmd/g3802t.ar121800
DLC
710422
20220714104917.0
5399999
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