P265 - Plan of Hood's Point, which is reckoned thirty miles from Jamestown

Map showing the disposition of British, Hessian and American forces along the James River near Hood's Point, Virginia during the early part of January 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.