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Description
Scale ca. 1:15,480.
Hand colored.
Relief shown by hachures.
"Note: The operations of the column under the command of His Excellency Lieutenant General Knyphausen is engraved from a plan drawn on the spot by S. W. Werner, Leiutt. of Hessian Artillery. Engraved by Wm. Fade, Charing cross, 1778."
Includes "References to the column under the command of Lt. Genl. Earl Cornwallis" and "References to the column under the command of His Excellency Lieutt. Genl. Knyphausen."
"It is just possible that Washington's serious defeat at Brandywine could have been avoided if he had had the aid of an accurate large-scale map ... of the topographically complex areas ..."--Cf. Nebenzahl.