Map of the City of New Orleans and its vicinity:

Sub-Title

Shewing (sic) the route of the British invading Army in 1814-15; and the Works constructed since that period for its defence;

Subject

Battle of New Orleans; New Orleans vicinity; Lake Borgne, Fort St. John, Point of Woods, Point aux herbes (sic), Fort Pike, Lake St. Catherine, Fort Wood, Bayou Dupré; location of landowners along Mississippi River from just above New Orleans to English Turn

Date

1815 (historical)

Mapmaker

Mackay, [Alex G.?]

Place of Publication

unidentified

Accession Number

T0055.1997.0264

Condition

Good-excellent.

Curatorial Notes

Verso notes, "Please credit the National Archives."

Notes

Dated May 1828, with notation, "Compiled from a Map of the invasion by Major Latour Carrier (sic); Surveys and reconnoissances of Lieutenants Underhill, Bowman and Pickel of the U. S. Army and the British Admiralty surveys of the Guilf of Mexico of 1765 & 1770." Signed by Mackay, Dec. 1829.

Media Type

b + w photograph

Size

15 1/4 x 16 1/2

Storage

c03d10