Map of Fort Confederation (also known as Fort Tombécbee, Fort Tombigbee, and Fort York) on the Tombigbee River near the later site of Epes in Sumter County, Alabama; originally built by the French as a Choctaw Indian trading post. Details the 1736 occupation by French and Choctaw forces during their campaign against Chickasaw Indians allied with the English. Keyed to 9 references.
Relief shown pictorially.
Oriented with north at left.
Note on verso: No. 10, page 257.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, gray, brown).
No. 10 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
Ms. memoir adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.
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