Map [Plan d'Amboy]. [Vues de la rade de Charles-Town et de Fort Sulivan, mai 1780]

Title

• [Plan d'Amboy]. [Vues de la rade de Charles-Town et de Fort Sulivan, mai 1780]

Summary

• "The map presented here shows the city and harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, at the time of the first British siege of Charleston and attack on Fort Sullivan in June 1776. This was the earliest British attempt to capture Charleston during the Revolutionary War, by which General Henry Clinton and Admiral Sir Peter Parker sought to put down the rebellion in the southern colonies. Above the map of Charleston is a view of Fort Sullivan, where William Moultrie, a colonel in the state militia of South Carolina, repulsed a British attack. The fort was later renamed Fort Moultrie in his honor. After failing to secure Charleston, the British fleet sailed to New York City. British forces would not return to Charleston until 1780. The map also includes an inset view of Amboy (present-day Perth Amboy) on the Raritan River, in New Jersey. It shows a layout of the town with houses, streets, fields, vegetation, connecting roads, nearby parts of Raritan Bay and Staten Island, and the ferry to South Amboy. This map has a watermark. Relief is shown by hachures. 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.

Created / Published

• [n.p., 1780]

Contents

• Plan d'Amboy.--Fort-Sulivan.--Charles-Town.

Headings

• -  Charleston (S.C.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Charleston (S.C.)--History--Siege, 1780--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Charleston Harbor (S.C.)--History--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Fort Moultrie (S.C.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Perth Amboy (N.J.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  United States--New Jersey--Perth Amboy
• -  United States--South Carolina--Charleston Harbor
• -  United States--South Carolina--Charleston
• -  United States--South Carolina--Fort Moultrie

Genre

• Early maps
• Aerial views

Notes

• -  AACR2: 440; 651/1; 651/2; 651/3; 651/4; 651/5
• -  Vault
• -  Has watermark.
• -  Relief shown by hachures.
• -  The view of Charleston Harbor concerns the assault on Fort Sulivan during the siege of Charleston, 1780.
• -  Title from Philip Lee Phillips' List of maps of America.
• -  Scale ca. 1:25,600.
• -  Library of Congress. Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789, 1250
• -  List of maps of America in the Library of Congress, p. 692

Medium

• map and 2 views; on sheet 31 x 46 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• G3814.P4 1780 .P5

Repository

• Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3814p.ar125000

Library of Congress Control Number

• gm71000984

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/gm71000984

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