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Complete Record for Item NS9 M28.1.36

Core Fields

Title:A plan of the environs of Brooklyn showing the position of the rebel lines and defences on the 27th of August 1776
Item Type:Maps
Date:1927
Union Title Photostat of Sir Henry Clinton British Headquarters Map
Call Number NS9 M28.1.36

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Clinton, Sir Henry

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

Extent: 1 photostat on 2 separate sheets
Added_date: 1781
Medium: n/a
General_note: note in UR in Sir Henry Clinton's hand: "This map proves that there were no Rebel works near the waterside of Brooklyn 27 Augt 76 & consequently S[ir] W[illiam] H[owe] was misinformed & that we might have taken possession at the close of the action and made the island and all in it ours." ; Clinton Map No. 132; from original in Clements Library, University of Michigan
Added_corpname: University of Michigan

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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

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