The German Kriegsmarine used a coded grid system to plot U-boat positions, designating the area of the gulf south of New Orleans as DA90. This 1986 facsimile map, based on historical data, highlights the extreme danger that German submarine warfare posed to ships exiting the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. U-Boote im Golf von Mexiko 1942-1943 by Carl D. This map was probably compiled by Samuel Lewis, Carey's principal mapmaker.ДЎ52. He had issued the earliest printed map of Louisiana as a state in 1813, which appears here in an enlarged version from his 1814 General Atlas. His American Pocket Atlas, in which the map of Louisiana appeared, was published in editions of 1796, 1801, 1809, 1813, and 1814. Carey's American Atlas of 1795 was the earliest atlas of the United States. His success in publishing Guthrie's Geography Improved led him to similar projects.

Carey set up a publishing firm financed by the marquis de Lafayette, with whom he had earlier become friends in Paris. Mathew Carey became a pioneer American map publisher following his immigration to Philadelphia from Dublin in 1784. Louisiana from Mathew Carey's General Atlas Improved and Enlarged: Being A Collection of Maps of the World and QuartersвЂ¦. Bowen received appointments as engraver of maps to King George II of England, as well as Louis XV of France.Д§4. Unlike many mapmakers of his time, he credited his sources for this map, most notably the great French mapmaker Jacques Nicolas Bellin. Bowen shows European settlements along with some Indian nations. The Historic New Orleans CollectionДЄlthough the French were well entrenched in Louisiana by the 1740s, the British remained interested in the area for their own colonial expansion. A New & Accurate Map of Louisiana, with Part of Florida and Canada, and the Adjacent CountriesвЂ¦by Emanuel Bowen. Though de Fer's map features the site of La Salle's ill-fated colony near Matagorda Bay in modern Texas, the title cartouche also dramatizes the explorer's tragic death at the hands of his own men.Дў5. Tensions rose between France and Spain at this time, particularly with regard to French activity on the Gulf Coast. The selection of a French heir angered some Spaniards, as well as European colonial powers wary of a potent Spanish/French alliance. De Fer drafted this map as a crisis unfolded in Europe concerning the heir of Carlos II of Spain, who had died the previous year.

For nearly two centuries, mapmakers often lost or misplaced the Mississippi River on maps, but here its relationship to Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf of Mexico indicates a growing awareness of its correct placement. While the map's title makes a slight mistake concerning La Salle's 1682 'discovery' of the Mississippi River, it served at the time to more accurately identify reality in the face of long-held myths about the region. Here, de Fer highlights information gleaned by the expeditions of La Salle and Iberville. This and other maps by Nicolas de Fer defined the geographical space of Louisiana with an ornamental flair. le Chevallier d'Iberville en 1698 et 1699 by Nicholas de Fer. Les Costes aux Environs de la Riviere de Misisipi, Decouvertes par Mr.

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