Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt. General Burgoyne at Swords House

Description

Map 4 in a collection of 6 maps entitled, Maps of the expedition from Canada of Gen. Burgoyne, engraved and published by William Faden, London, 1780. "Drawn by W.C. Wilkinson Lt. 62d. Regt. Asst. Engr. Engraved by Wm. Faden." "Published as the Act directs, by W. Faden, Charing Cross, Feby. 1st. 1780." Visual scale [12 mm=200 yards]. The north arrow is pointing down. Described in Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, entry 1186, p. 255: "Published version of item 1180 [Wilkinson, William Cumberland. Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt. General Burgoyne... 1777]. Shows General Burgoyne's camp near 'Swords House' from the 17th to the 19th of September, the first and second positions of the army near Freeman's Farm on the 19th of September. The third and fourth positions are shows [sic] in an overlay. Also shows farms, fields, houses, part of the Hudson River, vegetation, and relief. Oriented with north to the bottom."