A plan of the city and fortifications of Louisburg : from a survey made by Richard Gridley, lieut. col. of the train of artillery in 1745 ...

A plan of the city and fortifications of Louisburg : from a survey made by Richard Gridley, lieut. col. of the train of artillery in 1745 ...

A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg : with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed & the ground on which they encamped during the siege in 1745|A map of Gabarus Bay

[London] Universal magazine for J. Hinton, 1758

1 map : ill. ; 28 x 36 cm. on a sheet 46 x 30 cm.

IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff

... "This important fortress was taken on June 17th 1745, after a siege of 49 days by nine regiments that were raised & equipped in 50 days in New England and commanded by S.r Will.m Pepperill [sic], assisted by a fleet under the command of Commodore Warren with the loss of 101 men killed & 30 that died by sickness. This place was afterwards restored to the French by the treaty of Aix la Chapelle."
John Hinton, publisher of the Universal Magazine, worked at Newgate Street from 1752-1765 -- R.V. Tooley, Dictionary of mapmakers, p. 301
Imprint date from another copy, with accompanying text from the May 1758 issue of the Universal magazine: L2003F364 1758
Contains much military and naval information, including a boom to protect the French ships; the landing point of the New England forces; the location of the British fleet and transports; the picket line around the camp containing Burr's, Pepperrell's, Willard's, Moulton's, and Moore's regiments;Gorham's regiment and English battery, etc.
On leaf 27r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757

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