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MAP #: 294S4

CARTOGRAPHER : STEDMAN, CHARLES [PUBLISHER]

DATE: 1794

SHORT TITLE : PLAN OF THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN IN VIRGINIA.

REMAINING TITLE & ID : (TOP RIGHT CORNER). "ENGRAVED FOR STEDMANS HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WAR." (UNDER TITLE). "SCALE OF FEET" (BOTTOM LEFT CORNER). "REFERENCES." (BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER). THE REVERSE SIDE AND THE MARGINS ARE BLANK. LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE (NOT SHOWN).

DATE OF PUBLICATION : R1794 (1787)
PLACE OF PUBLICATION : LONDON
PUBLISHER : CHARLES STEDMAN
LANGUAGE(S) : EN
SIZE (HEIGHT X WIDTH) : 27.3 X 32.3 CM.
SIZE - OTHER DATA : 32.6 X 39.2 CM. OM
SCALE - (RF) 1: : 36,800 (APPROXIMATE)
SCALE - OTHER DATA : 3500 FEET = 2.9 CM.
LIB. OF CONGRESS # : -
Md. HALL OF RECORDS # 1 : MSA SC1399-552
# 2 : MSA SC1399-488 (ED. 1)
HUNTINGFIELD ACQ. # 1 : SW015-DII
# 2 : O016-DNGF (ED. 1)
REGION CATEGORY : DETAILED MAP OF PART OF THE MD/CHESAPEAKE AREA (1)
SPECIAL CATEGORY(IES) : YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN (1)
: VIRGINIA MAP PRIMARILY (13)
# SHEETS TO MAP : 1
MAP ORIENTATION : N IS AT THE TOP OF THE MAP
RELIEF SHOWN ? : YES
HYDROGRAPHIC DATA : NONE.
CARTOUCHE : NONE (1)
BORDER : PLAIN (2)
PRIME MERIDIAN(S) : NONE
SEE ALSO MAP #s : 287T3, 295S8.
BEST INFO SOURCE : VERNER, NEBENZHL AND SABIN ARE THE BEST FOUND.
DESCRIPTION : THIS IS THE SECOND EDITION OF A MAP, FIRST INCLUDED IN BANASTRE TARLETON'S HISTORY OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1780 AND 1781, LONDON: T. CADELL, 1787, OPPOSITE 394 ON A SCALE OF 1:18,000. NEBENZAHL NOTES: "WHILE ON A SMALL SCALE, THIS WELL-ENGRAVED MAP CONVEYS CONSIDERABLE USEFUL INFORMATION. THE RAVINES AND CREEK BEDS THAT FIGURED IN THE ACTION [AT THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN, VA.] ARE CLEARLY INDICATED, AS ARE DETAILS OF THE SEVERAL PARALLELS OF THE SIEGE. TROOP ENCAMPMENTS AND THE ARTILLERY PACK OF THE FRANCO-AMERICAN FORCES ARE INDICATED, AND THE COMMANDERS' NAMES APPEAR... LINES OF FIRE SEAWARD FOR THE SHORE BATTERIES APPEAR AS TO THE SUNKEN BRITISH VESSELS AND TWO NAMED SHIPS OF THE LINE" (NEBENZAHL, # 197). UNLIKE THE 1ST EDITION, THIS EDITION SHOWS THE FORCES OF THE THREE COUNTRIES BY SYMBOLS RATHER THAN BY COLORS.

THIS SECOND EDITION WAS CONTAINED IN VOL. 2, OPPOSITE 412 OF CHARLES STEDMAN'S HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND TERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN WAR, 2 VOLS., LONDON: 1794. IT IS ON THE SAME SCALE AS THE FIRST EDITION. THE CHANGES FROM THE 1ST EDITION WERE COSMETIC. A LATER MAP EDITION WAS PRINTED IN 1795 IN THE GERMAN EDITION OF STEDMAN'S HISTORY, PUBLISHED IN BERLIN. THIS EDITION HAS NOT BEEN SEEN BY WRITER. NEBENZAHL'S BIBLIOGRAPHY (# 203) GIVES THE TITLE OF THE MAP IN THE GERMAN EDITION AS "PLAN DER BELAGERUNG VON YORK-TOWN IN VIRGINIA". ZU STEDMAN'S GESCHICHTE DES AMERIKANISCHEN KRIEGS. D.E. SOTZMANN DEL. A. SANDER FECIT." THE SCALE IS APPROXIMATELY 1: 36,800. (SEE MAP # 295S8). SABIN NOTES THAT "STEDMAN'S HISTORY IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED THE BEST CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTION WRITTEN FROM THE BRITISH SIDE. ...[STEDMAN] WAS APPARENTLY THE AMERICAN LOYALIST, WHO WAS BORN IN PHILADELPHIA, SERVED AS COMMISARY OF PRISONERS UNDER HOWE, ETC., WAS RETIRED AS COLONEL ON HALF-PAY, WAS APPOINTED TO EXAMINE THE CLAIMS OF AMERICAN LOYALISTS AND DIED WHEN DEPUTY-COMPTROLLER OF THE STAMP OFFICE IN JUNE, 1812."

DATA IS FROM NEBENZAHL, VERNER, AND SABIN, AND FROM OBSERVATION OF THE EDITIONS IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION.

EDITION & STATE INFO : THERE ARE TWO EDITIONS IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION. A THIRD IS REFERENCED BY NEBENZAHL AND VERNER. SINCE THERE WERE TWO ADDITIONAL ISSUANCES OF TARLETON'S HISTORY, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN OTHER STATES OF THE 1ST EDITION.

1ST ED. - (1787) - THE TITLE IS IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT WITH NO CARTOUCHE. "LONDON, PUBLISH'D MARCH 1st. 1787." IS IN THE CENTER BOTTOM, BELOW THE NEAT LINE. THE POSITION OF BRITISH, FRENCH AND AMERICAN FORCES IS SHOWN IN COLOR. THIS EDITION APPEARED OPPOSITE 394 IN SIR BANASTRE TARLETON'S A HISTORY OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1780 AND 1781 IN THE SOUTHERN PROVINCES OF AMERICA, LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND.", 1787. A SECOND PUBLICATION OF THIS EDITION OF THE HISTORY WAS DONE IN DUBLIN. A SECOND ENGLISH EDITION OF THE HISTORY WAS DONE IN 1796 BY "T. CADELL, JUN. & W. DAVIES (SUCCESSORS TO MR. CADELL,) IN THE STRAND." WRITER HAS NOT SEEN THESE REPUBLICATIONS AND CANNOT TELL THE CHANGES IN THE MAP, IF ANY. SEE MAP # 287T3.

2ND ED. - (1794) - THIS IS THE MAP DESCRIBED HEREIN. COPIES OF THE STEDMAN HISTORY ARE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, HARVARD, JOHN CARTER BROWN, MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY.

3RD ED. - (1795) - THIS EDITION HAS NOT BEEN EXAMINED. IT IS NOTED AS # 203 IN NEBENZAHL'S BIBLIOGRAPHY AND AS XXX IN VERNER'S "MAPS OF THE YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN". ENTITLED "PLAN DER BELANGERUNG VON YORK-TOWN IN VIRGINIA" (ZU STEDMAN'S GESCHICHTE DES AMERIKANISCHEN KRIEGES. D.E. SOTZMANN DEL. A. SANDER FECIT). THE MAP IS 14 X 16 CM. AND IS CONTAINED IN THE GERMAN EDITION OF STEDMAN'S HISTORY ENTITLED GESCHICHTE DES URSPRUNG, DES FORTGANGS, UNDDER BEENDIGUNG DES AMERIKANISCHEN KRIEGS, VOL. 2, BERLIN: VOSS, 1795. THE SCALE IS 1:36,800. SEE MAP # 295S8.

DATA IS FROM NEBENZAHL AND VERNER AND FROM OBSERVATION OF THE COPIES IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION.

HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS A BEAUTIFUL BLACK AND WHITE COPY, AS ISSUED, OF THIS MAP. A CUT IN THE BOTTOM LEFT MARGIN HAS BEEN SKILLFULLY REPAIRED, NOT AFFECTING THE ENGRAVED AREA. IT HAS AN ACQ. # OF SW015-DII AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399-552. THE COLLECTION ALSO HAS A COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION WITH AN ACQ. # OF O016-DNGF AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399-448.

BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : SWEM, EARL G., MAPS RELATING TO VIRGINIA IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, RICHMOND: VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES, A 1989 REPRINT OF A 1914 ARTICLE IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY BULLETIN REPUBLISHED AS A BOOK,# 350; VERNER, COOLIE, "THE PRINTED MAPS OF VIRGINIA, 1590-1800 A CARTOBIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION", RICHMOND: VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1965[?], # 893; NEBENZAHL, KENNETH, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTED BATTLE PLANS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1795, CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 1975, 126, 128-129, # 202; STEVENS, JOHN AUSTIN, ed., THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, VOL. 6, NEW YORK: A.S. BARNES, 1881, 8 (REPRODUCTION); VERNER, COOLIE, "MAPS OF THE YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN", IN MAP COLLECTORS SERIES # 18, 40, XIX, # 30; SABIN, JOSEPH, A DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME, NEW YORK: JOSEPH SABIN, 1868-1936, # 91057; WINDSOR, JUSTIN, NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA, VOL. 6 OF 8, CAMBRIDGE: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., 1889, # 518; PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF MAPS OF AMERICA IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, NEW YORK: BURT FRANKLIN, UNDATED REPRINT OF A 1901 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLICATION, 1133; HOWES, WRIGHT, U.S.IANA (1650-1950) A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 2ND ED., NEW YORK: R.R. BOWKER COMPANY FOR NEWBERRY LIBRARY, 1962, 914.

August 21, 1993


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