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    "label": "A sketch of the operations before Charlestown the capital of South Carolina",
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    "title": "A sketch of the operations before Charlestown the capital of South Carolina",
    "description": "In 1780, the British tried to capture Charleston, South Carolina again. This chart depicts the six-week siege that forced American troops to surrender on May 12, 1780. This was the largest surrender of American troops during the war. Along with Samuel Holland, Joseph F.W. Des Barres conducted extensive coastal surveys of the British colonies beginning in 1764. Although their charts were prepared primarily for navigational purposes, this one features the fortifications constructed by British and American troops (colored yellow) and the British and American fleets. This version of the chart appeared in Des Barres’ The Atlantic Neptune, the most comprehensive maritime atlas of the period.",
    "date": "[\"[1780]\"]",
    "year": 1780,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7h149x77p",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_004994",
    "creators": [
        "Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "American Revolutionary War-Era Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Charleston (S.C.)--History--Siege, 1780--Maps--Early works to 1800"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Charleston",
        "Charleston (county)",
        "North and Central America",
        "South Carolina",
        "United States"
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    "country": "United States",
    "state": "South Carolina",
    "county": "Charleston",
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    "publisher": "J.F.W. Des Barres"
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    "extent": "1 map : hand col. ; 102 x 73 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "1st state.",
        "Hand colored.",
        "Includes descriptive index and inset \"Charlestown Harbour,\" ca. 1:430,000.",
        "Appears in the author's Atlantic Neptune pt.3, no.18. London : [J.F.W. Des Barres], 1777-[1781].",
        "This map can be viewed as a georeferenced overlay in an interactive application made especially for We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence http://d2o8owo4k087al.cloudfront.net/index.html?mapId=82."
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