Town à Boston: Marches De L'armée in 1782

Old map of Middle Atlantic States, New England, United States.

• Scale ca. 1:650,000.
• Title from manuscript label on verso as originally mounted.
• Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
• Oriented with north toward the upper right.
• Key map of the route of march of Comte de Rochambeau's army from Providence, R.I., to Yorktown, Va., and the return march to Boston.
• The yellow line from Providence to Head of Elk and Annapolis, Md., and down Chesapeake Bay to Williamsburg and Yorktown (camps 1-40) shows the march south from June 10 to September 30, 1781. The green line from "Scott's House" southward to Williamsburg shows the route of the supply train, and the read line from Lebanon, Conn., to Philipsburg, N.Y., represnts the flanking march of Lauzun's Legion.
• Camps on the return march follow the green line from Williamsburg to "Spurrier's Tavern" and continue along the yellow line to Boston. Camps along the red line from Princeton, N.J., to King's Ferry represent the flanking march of Lauzun's Legion on the return march.
• Title from manuscript label on verso as originally mounted.
• The complete title as it appears on another version of the map reads: "Carte générale des camps et marches et des troupes françaises sous les ordres du Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau, de Rhode Island à York en Verginie, et des camps occupés au retour de l'armée française de York à Boston: du 9 Juin 1781, au ler. Décembre 1782."
• Shows military camps.
• For information on other version of the map see Rice and Brown, American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army, 1972, v. 2, p. 196-97.

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