{"title":"Gordon’s History of the American War","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"york-town-gloucester-point-besieged-by-the-allied-army-gordon-conder-1788-map-p-6-112062","title":"York Town \u0026 Gloucester Point… besieged by the Allied Army—Gordon\/Conder 1788 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'York Town, and Gloucester Point, as besieged by The Allied Army.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn excellent contemporary plan of the 1781 Siege of Yorktown, the decisive campaign that effectively brought major fighting in the American Revolutionary War to its conclusion. British fortifications at York Town and Gloucester Point are surrounded by converging American and French siege lines, while batteries, trenches, headquarters, encampments, roads and shipping reveal the tightening Allied investment of Cornwallis's army. An extensive explanatory key enables the progress of the siege to be followed in considerable detail, making this one of the most informative contemporary printed plans of the final campaign of the war. Published in the London first edition of one of the earliest major histories of the American Revolution, only seven years after the siege itself, the map appears only infrequently in the trade and is considerably scarcer than most contemporary magazine maps of the conflict.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53689695404379,"sku":"P-6-112062","price":760.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112062a.jpg?v=1785426788"},{"product_id":"the-carolina-s-with-part-of-georgia-revolutionary-war-gordon-conder-1788-map-p-6-112060","title":"The Carolina’s, with part of Georgia—Revolutionary War—Gordon \/ Conder 1788 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The Carolina’s, with part of Georgia.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA scarce and important contemporary map of the southern theatre of the American Revolutionary War, depicting North and South Carolina and part of Georgia during the campaigns of 1780–1781, when the struggle for control of the southern colonies reached its climax. Rivers, roads, ferries, towns and frontier settlements are carefully recorded, together with the principal routes by which British and American armies manoeuvred across the region. Rather than illustrating a single engagement, the map presents the wider campaign in which control of communications and river crossings proved as important as success on the battlefield. Published in the London first edition of William Gordon's History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America, one of the earliest major histories of the Revolution, only seven years after the fighting it records, the map is encountered on the market only infrequently and is considerably scarcer than the better-known Revolutionary War maps issued in contemporary British magazines.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53689695535451,"sku":"P-6-112060","price":1720.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112060a.jpg?v=1785426788"},{"product_id":"a-sketch-of-operations-before-charlestown-south-carolina-gordon-conder-1788-map-p-6-112061","title":"A Sketch of Operations before Charlestown, South Carolina—Gordon\/Conder 1788 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'A Sketch of the Operations before Charlestown, South Carolina. 1780 \/\/ A Sketch of Sr. Peter Parker’s Attack on Fort Moultrie. June 28th 1776.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo finely engraved plans illustrating the struggle for Charleston during the American Revolutionary War. The larger plan records the British siege and capture of Charleston in 1780, showing the city's fortifications, siege works, batteries, defensive lines and the concentration of naval forces within the harbour. The accompanying plan depicts the unsuccessful British naval assault on Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island in 1776, one of the earliest and most celebrated American defensive victories of the war. Together they provide a vivid account of two closely connected campaigns separated by only four years, demonstrating how dramatically the military situation in South Carolina changed between the opening and later stages of the conflict. Published in the London first edition of one of the earliest major histories of the American Revolution, just eight years after the fall of Charleston and twelve years after the attack on Fort Moultrie, these plans are encountered only rarely on the market and are appreciably scarcer than comparable Revolutionary War maps published in eighteenth-century British magazines.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53689696026971,"sku":"P-6-112061","price":720.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112061a.jpg?v=1785426789"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/collections\/gordon-s-history-of-the-american-war.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}