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Print shows Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, with the British fleet in the foreground, at the time of the assault on Fort Sullivan, with the city of Charleston visible in the background; prominent features identified by letter with legend printed below image.
Possible restrikes from later edition published in New York.
Illus. in: Atlas of the battles of the American Revolution, together with maps shewing the routes of the British and American Armies, plans of cities, surveys of harbors, &c., / taken during that eventful period by officers attached to the Royal Army. [New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1845?, no. 28]
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