The maps and views cover both much of the continent of North America,
from as far north as Placentia Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, to the
Mississippi River Valley and as far south as Haiti on the island of Hispaniola.
The maps date from 1717 to 1795, but the majority of the items are from
the years of the American Revolution. For his personal use and later as
mementos of his time in America, Rochambeau collected maps of fortifications
and troop positions prepared by the French army engineers, including a
manuscript atlas containing plans of 54 French encampments during the
army's 1782 march from Yorktown to Boston; Revolutionary-era maps published
in England and France; and early state maps from the 1790s.
This online presentation includes all the materials in the "Rochambeau
Map Collection," as well as any items that also appear in the American
Memory collection "The
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North American and
the West Indies, 1750-1789."