While the American right held for several hours the centre and left broke and fled north to the American line of fortifications in the Brooklyn Heights opposite Manhattan and the town of New York on the island’s tip. The most detailed period battle plan of the Fall 1776 New York campaign, which culminated in the October 28 Battle of White Plains. Original outline, wash and spot color, with the Hudson River and Long Island Sound retouched. Minor mends and reinforcements.
By October 1776, George Washington’s army had been forced to abandon New York and retire to White Plains. The map also shows the depth soundings in Oyster Bay and up the Hudson and East rivers. Not long after, the British rushed into New York Harbor with a slew of ships and thousands of soldiers. Map of A map showing the area of the New York and New Jersey campaign (1776) during the American Revolutionary War.
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The map depicts the theatre of war in October-November of 1776, a 1000-square mile area flanking the Hudson River from northern Manhattan as far … He was also involved in running the boundary line between New York and Quebec at the 45th parallel, which boundary is shown on the present map. At the top of the map are the outlines of British and American positions and lines of march around Harlem and the Hudson Heights. General Washington moved the Continental Army from Boston to New York, anticipating a British attack there. Map: The 1776 New York Campaign. The New York Campaign (July to November 1776) ... Washington arrived in New York in April 1776 and moved forward with Lee's plans for fortification (by then Congress had sent Lee to Charleston, South Carolina). The first event depicted on this map took place on October 11: Washington had learned that the British were planning to land troops in the Bronx and Westchester, with the intent of cutting off the Americans’ line of retreat. Description: A map showing the area of the New York and New Jersey campaign (1776) during the American Revolutionary War. When in 1771 Tryon assumed the governorship of New York, Sauthier accompanied him and soon went to work on a survey of the eastern part of the province, which at the time included all of present-day Vermont. The map was originally drawn by William Faden the cartographer to the King. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Welcome to Historical Firearms, a site that looks at the history, development and use of firearms, as well as wider military history. Engraving and etching, 28 ½”h x 19 ¼”w at neat line plus margins. Massive ordnance return for the Continental Army in Boston, Jan. 1, 1777, Revolutionary-war manuscript plan of Fort Mifflin on the Delaware River, A unique contemporary manuscript plan of the 1778 Battle of Monmouth, which secured Washington’s role as “Father of the Nation”.
William Faden also published several other maps based on his New York surveys, including battle plans and the monumental Chorographical Map of the Province of New York. Battle of Kip's Bay (September 15). It is closely, though not exactly, based on a manuscript by Claude Joseph Sauthier, a Swiss-born engineer serving under Lord Percy (The manuscript is now in the Faden Collection at the Library of Congress.) The map depicts the theatre of war in October-November of 1776, a 1000-square mile area flanking the Hudson River from northern Manhattan as far upriver as Peekskill. Florida Center for Instructional Technology. This Mount Vernon produced map shows the region around New York City that became the focal point of the American Revolution during the Summer and Fall of 1776. Specializing in antique American maps & prints.
On October 18 the British began landing troops in Westchester, but Washington avoided encirclement and took up a defensive positions at White Plains, where on October 28 the two armies fought a pitched battle with a large British force. The spur of the Heights of Gowanus and the Woody Heights of Gowanus can be clearly seen. It is in excellent condition and represents a rare artifact from the War of Independence. Sellers & Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, # 1056 (2nd state). 72-74. The map was originally drawn by William Faden the cartographer to the King. A native of France, Sauthier came to the Colonies in 1767 and was employed by Governor Tryon of North Carolina. On the night of the 27th August the General William Howe and General Henry Clinton led 10,000 British troops on a nine mile night march behind the American left and centre. Superimposed on this is an enormous amount of information about the movements and encounters of the British and Continental Armies, in aggregate a riot of tiny blue and red blocks following blue and red lines of movement, copiously annotated with dates, unit numbers &c. I quite agree with Nebenzahl’s assessment that the map is “so filled with detail as to be at once among the most informative and the most difficult to study of all the battle plans.” (Atlas of the American Revolution, p. 90).