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Title: Plan of the Siege of Charlestown in South Carolina
Contributor: Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1787-03-01
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
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Description: Kashnor notes, "This shows Charlestown Harbour from Fort Sullivan to Charlestown Neck, and locating the positions of the British Fleet with the boom across Cooper's River. On the neck is shown the encampment of the British Forces, and the three parallels which eventually led to the fall of the town." The siege of Charleston ended May 12, 1779 with surrender to British forces. MS note: 72 (on backing). Relief: pictorial & hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, furlongs. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 72 (on backing).
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map hand col. 26 x 30 cm., sheet 28 x 31 cm.
Identifier: 093:072 S
428808
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/9872
Language: English
Subject: Charleston (S.C.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps
Charleston (S.C.)--History--Siege, 1780--Maps
Charleston Harbor (S.C.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Time Period: [1779,ca.]
Place: North America United States South Carolina Charleston
W 80°/N 32°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, April, 1924.

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