A Map of New England & Ye Country Adjacent: Extending Northward to Quebec, & Westward to Niagara, on Lake Ontario; Shewing Gen: Shirley and Gen: Johnson's Routs, & Many Places Omitted in Other Maps, from the General Magazine of the Arts & Sciences

Publisher William Owen British

November 1755

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London periodicals regularly published maps of Britain's American colonies during the French and Indian War (1754-63), as British and French armies vied to gain control of the Eastern Great Lakes and Canada. This 1755 map shows territory extending from Quebec south to Delaware Bay and west to Lake Ontario. Towns, forts, rivers, portages, and the routes of the British campaigns against Niagara and Crown Point are depicted. Governor Shirley led a British attempt to take Fort Niagara but was turned back at Fort Oswego. More successfully, General William Johnson led an army of four thousand New Englanders against Fort Frederick, defeated the French near Lake George and gained the only British victory of 1755. Inset maps here describe Fort Frederick at Crown Point (built by the French in 1731) and of Fort du Quesne (now in Pittsburgh, details gleaned from French deserters); and, "Oswego an English Fort."

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Title: A Map of New England & Ye Country Adjacent: Extending Northward to Quebec, & Westward to Niagara, on Lake Ontario; Shewing Gen: Shirley and Gen: Johnson's Routs, & Many Places Omitted in Other Maps, from the General Magazine of the Arts & Sciences
Publisher: William Owen (British, died 1793)
Date: November 1755
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: Image: 7 13/16 × 6 7/8 in. (19.8 × 17.5 cm)
Sheet (clipped impression): 8 5/16 × 7 3/4 in. (21.1 × 19.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
Object Number: 24.90.1295
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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