Plan of the siege of Charles Town in South Carolina under command of His Excellence Sir Henry Clinton and under direction of ... Collonel Mount-Crieff as chief ingener, this town was surrendered with capitulation the 12. May 1780 after 6 weeks and 3 days siege.

Scale ca. 1:11,500.

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.

Oriented with north to the right.

Shows detailed lines of fire for defenders and besiegers.

Ships shown pictorially.

On verso: Siege of Charles Town, South Carolina. Lieut. Finnegan, 16th Regt.

LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1556

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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