After Henry Reinagle

MacDonough’s Victory on Lake Champlain, and defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Genl Macomb, Septr 11th 1814., by B. Tanner

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After Henry Reinagle
MacDonough’s Victory on Lake Champlain, and defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Genl Macomb, Septr 11th 1814., by B. Tanner
handcoloured engraving [London, 1816]
18 ¾ x 24 ¾in. (47.7 x 62.8cm.)
(5)together with a handcoloured lithograph ‘Battle of Plattsburg Bay. McDonough’s Victory. Sept 11th 1814’ (US Military Magazine. Army & Navy. Vol 2nd), a handcoloured engraved map ‘A Survey of Lake Champlain including Lake George Crown Point and Saint John, surveyed by order of his excellency Major General Sr Jeffery Amherst…’ after William Brassier, published by Robert Sayer and J. Bennett, [London, 1776], and two further Revolutionary War engraved maps of Lake Champlain and environs (‘The Attack and Defeat of the American Fleet under Benedict Arnold, by the King’s Fleet Commanded by Capt Thomas Pringle upon Lake Champlain, the 11th of October 1776 … An Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet on Lake Champlain…’ and ‘A Map of the Country in which the Army under Lt. General Burgoyne acted in the Campaign of 1877 shewing the Marches of the Army & the Places of the principal Actions’ published by William Faden, London, 1776 and 1780 respectively)

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Lot Essay

The Battle of Plattsburg between American forces commanded by Thomas Macdonough and British forces commanded by Captain George Downie saw the Americans emerge victorious. The subsequent British withdrawal to Canada concluded their northern campaign of the War of 1812.

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