P155 - Plan of the area of Philipse's Hill or Philipse's Heights

Plan der Gegend von Philipps Hill oder Philipps Anhöhen
P155 - Plan of the area of Philipse's Hill or Philipse's Heights
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    Map of the area around Philipse's Hill, Yonkers, N. Y. showing disposition of American and Hessian forces. Published in a 1979 English language translation of the diary of a Hessian officer Ewald, Johann von. Diary of the American War : a Hessian Journal / translated and edited by Joseph P. Tustin. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1979, p. 125 from a 1791 transcription of notes and sketches found in the original diary (Tagebuch von dem Amerikanischen Kriege). The original map, only one of three contemporary views of Valley Forge known to exist, includes the page number on which it occurs in the 1791 transcription.
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    At the lower left corner of the plan is "Philips hauss," or Philipse Manor Hall, now in Yonkers.  Crossing the Saw Mill River ("Samul Crique") below the house is Philipse's Bridge.  The vertical road marked "Strasse nach albanien" is the Albany Post Road.  Alongside this road are the Hessian regiments Prince Charles and von Trümbach, and above them the Jäger Corps.  At the upper left are two jäger pickets: "1 officer 40 jägers" and "1 noncommissioned officer and 15 jägers."  The road to the right crosses the Saw Mill River at Babcock's Bridge, where it forks on the right to the "Road to Mile Square" and on the left past Reverend Luke Babcock's house to the "Road to Sing Sing."  Tarrytown is further to the north, beyond the map.

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    1791
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    Source: Ewald, Johann von. Tagebuch von dem amerikanischen kriege. 1791. This is a ms. transcription of Ewald's notes.

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