P293 - Plan of the area of Scott's Creek, two short miles from Portsmouth up to the causeway

Plan von der Gegend der Skots Crique zwey kleine Meilen von Portsmuth bis nach dem Damm
P293 - Plan of the area of Scott's Creek, two short miles from Portsmouth up to the causeway
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    Map of the area around Scott's Creek, near Portsmouth, Virginia showing the disposition of British, Hessian and American forces in mid-March 1781. 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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    Above creek: "Position of the enemy"; "Ruins of burnt-out houses where the jäger picket had a double picket in daytime."  Below creek: "The 30 jägers during the attack of the enemy"; "Position of the jäger pickets."  Along vertical road: "Road from Portsmouth to Suffolk or Nansemond."  Along horizontal road to left: "Road to Great Bridge."  Below the abatis surrounding square, to left: "An old ruin of a demolished house in which a picket of 50 men stood, which is its position for cooperating with the jäger pickets posted as indicated."  Left of guns in the road: "Two guns and the Ranger Corps for the support of the pickets, which, however, witnessed the play."  [Simcoe's rangers were absent.]  Lower left corner: "This creek falls into the Elizabeth River at Mill Point, about three miles from the causeway."  Scott's Creek now flows within the city of Portsmouth.

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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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