The Seven Years War (1756-63)
Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war
Map of Monongahela River, 1755 (Pennsylvania, USA)
1755 or laterBlack and brown ink on paper, laid down on linen | Scale: not stated. 1:1,000,000 approx. | RCIN 731063
A map of the route taken by the British troops between Fort Cumberland and Lake Erie, 1755. French and Indian War (1754-63). Oriented with north-west to top. A rough, small-scale sketch marking the river crossings and settlements along the route.
Anonymous (cartographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GBArmy-USA-American Colonial forcesWatermark: Fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, a '4' suspending the letters L V G below
Mark, stamped: 775
Scale: not stated. 1:1,000,000 approx.
38.8 x 25.4 cm (image and sheet)
Manuscript title:
No title
Additional text:
[bottom left:] NB. The Prick’d Line / from Fort Cumberland / to Lake Erie is the / comon rout of all / Travellers. [Right centre, in red ink:] NB. The Red Lines show where the English / Troops passed and repassed the Monongahela / according to the best advices receiv’d / on the 25th of August 1755.
Annotations:
George III heading: Road between Fort Cumberland and Lake Erie with the passage of the Monongahela in 1755.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top left, some calculations in black pencil]. (Verso) [bottom left, red pencil:] 12/59-2; [bottom left, black pencil:] XV/13. [top left, ink, crossed out in red pencil, obscured by white paper strip:] March Route Erie; [bottom, ink, obscured by linen and illegible.]
George III catalogue entry:
Monongahela A drawn Sketch of the Road between Fort Cumberland and Lake Erie with the passage of the Monongahela River by the English Troops in 1755. [The same entry appears under the headings Cumberland, Fort and Erie, Lake.]
Subject(s)
Pennsylvania, USA
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