File:Map of Operations on the Delaware River at Philadelphia, PA Oct-Nov., 1777.jpeg
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[edit]DescriptionMap of Operations on the Delaware River at Philadelphia, PA Oct-Nov., 1777.jpeg |
English: Map of operations on the Delaware River at Philadelphia, PA Oct-Nov, 1777. Explanation of the Map.—This shows the main operations upon the Delaware between the middle of October and tho close of November, 1777. Fort Mifflin is seen on the lower end of Mud Island. A, B, two British transports; C, the Experiment; D, the Vigilant frigate; E, the Fury sloop; F, a passage opened through the stockadoes at Billingsport; G, American fleet burned at Gloucester; H, the village of Woodbury and Cornwallis's encampment on the 21st of November, 1777; I, camp on the 24th, between the branches of Timber Creek ; J, a battery of two eighteen pounders and two nine pounders; K, fort at Billingsport, Colonel Stirling's corps, and Cornwallis's camp on the 18th of November; L, redoubt, on Carpenter's Island; M, on Province Island, to cover the bridge in the direction of Philadelphia; N, a battery of six twenty-four pounders, one eight-inch howitzer, and one eight-inch mortar; 0, a battery with one eight-inch howitzer and one eight-inch mortar; P, a battery with one thirteen-inch mortar; n, two twelve pounders ; o, one eighteen pounder ; S, stockadoes in the channel in front of Fort Mifflin ; a, a small vessel; b, wreck of the Merlin; r, the Liverpool; d, Cornwallis galley; e, the Pearl; f, the Somerset ; g, the Roebuck; h, wreck of the Augusta; i, the Iris; j, ship sunk; k, the Vigilant; I, the Fury; W, the Whitall house, just below Fort Mercer. The parallelograms around Fort Mercer denote the attack by Donop, on the 22d of October. The small island between Red Bank Island and the Jersey shore in Woodbury Island, on which the Americans erected a small battery. The creek, just below Fort Mercer, is Woodbury Creek, a deep and sluggish stream, near the Delaware. |
Date | (Engraving); June 28, 2013 (Digital image) |
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(Original text: Lossing, Benson John. "Field Book of the Revolution" (2 Volumes). New York: Harper Brothers. Vol. 2, p. 298 "The Cooper Collections of U.S. History" (uploader's personal collection) Scanned by the uploader, Centpacrr.) |
Author | Unknown (Engraving); Centpacrr (Digital image) |
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Horizontal resolution | 600 dpi |
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File change date and time | 19:26, 28 June 2013 |
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