Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 1778
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 30v
Additional Source Text:
"Copied from an original done by Capt André."
Notes:
On list of "Paintings and Drawings done."
John André (1751-1780) was a major in the British Army and head of its Secret Service in America during the American Revolutionary War. He was hanged as a spy by the Continental Army for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York, to the British.
André's original map is reproduced in Henry Cabot Lodge, ed., André's journal: An authentic record of the movements and engagements of the British Army in America from June 1777 to November 1778 as recorded from day to day by Major John André, 2 vols. (Boston, 1903), 1, following p. 32 (reproduced here).
