Statement "par un officier de l'armée" appears after the imprint statement. A French version of "Plan of the Attack on the Provincial Army, on Long Island, August 27th 1776 ... / by an officer of the army," published in London by J. Bowles, G. Kearsley, Octr. 24th 1776. Relief shown by hachures. Depicts the British frontal attack on the American army entrenched on Brooklyn Heights. Probably early state: table of references identifies only 9 items, instead of the 12 cited by Nebenzahl; ms. additions, including "5. Grand defiles" on table of references & troop positions added Mahattan Island, Westchester County, along the New Jersey shoreline. Scale [ca.1:131 250] From Recueil des Plans de l'Amerique Septentrionale, 1777: 1st ed. published in 1755; later includes three plans and views of engagements in the American War of Independence (1775-81).