| Former owner | Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 |
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| Former owner | Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies |
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| Date | [1759] |
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| Scale | Scale approximately 1:400 |
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| Language | French |
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| Location | British Library |
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| Collection (local) | British Library Collection |
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| Subjects | - Fortification--New York (State)--Fort Ticonderoga--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Military art and science--New York (State)--Fort Ticonderoga--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
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| Places | - Essex (county)
- Fort Ticonderoga
- North and Central America
- United States
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| Extent | 1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour, over pencil ; 48 x 61 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 pictorially.
- Untitled and unsigned map of Fort Ticonderoga (previously Fort Carillon).
- Date of before 1759 attributed as scale bar at lower left is given in toises, a unit more comminly used by French cartographers thus suggesting the map was produced prior to the British capture of the fort in 1759 when its name was changed to Ticonderoga.
- North is oriented to the top of the map.
- Copy at Add Ms 57,712.12. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVII. Shows manuscript addition of "12" in pencil at lower right. Manuscript addition in pencil shows "A 9" at upper right. Laid on archival tissue. Evidence of old folds. Green circular label to verso shows "5". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/27", and repeated in pencil. Paper watermark shows a shield with a diagonal stripe, surmounted by a fleur de lys.
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