text: Stock# 53494
  Fine example of Faden's separately issued broadside map showing the British Invasion of New York City in August and September of 1776. The present example is the final state of the map, with significant improvements, providing the correct location for Fort Washington and giving the best depiction of the fortifications and encampments of the Americans as they withdrew north from New York City. It is also the only state to show the "cheval de frise", constructed by the Americans across the Hudson Riverbetrween Fort Lee and Fort Washington, which would be the site of the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776.
  For reasons still unclear the British failed to press their advantage. On the night of the August 29, Washington was able to extricate his trapped forces and ferry them across the East River to Manhattan. The British finally attacked Manhattan itself on September 15, 1776, gaining control of the island by mid-November, 1776.
  State 1: Not Text below plan.
  State 6: Younker is deleted at the north part of the Hudson and only the word "Fort" appears. "Fort Lee or Ft. Constitution" appears on the New Jersey shore of the Hudson. The text title reverts to "An Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Forces at the Attack of the Rebel Works on Long Island on 27th of August, 1776." The imprint is now ". . . Mr. Wallis, Bookseller." The topographical and other details on the east side of the Hudson, north of Bloomingdales, is now completely revised.