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Views of the Entrance to New York Harbor, Joseph Des Barres, 1777. Courtesy of Richard H. Brown.

Bring your lunch and learn more about George Washington's world, the Washington Presidential Library’s important map collection, and the American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) web portal in our ARGO Brown Bag lunch series.

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The Atlantic Neptune and the Northern Survey

Join Dr. Alexandra Montgomery, manager of the Library’s Center for Digital History and one of the ARGO project leads, to learn more about George Washington’s interest in maps and one of the finest atlases ever published: JFW Des Barres’ The Atlantic Neptune (1777). This massive four-volume work was sponsored by the British Admiralty and represented the cutting edge of cartography knowledge at the outbreak of the American Revolution. Meant to document Britain’s expanded empire after the defeat of the French in 1763, it instead ended up chronicling its collapse in the war that followed.

About the Presenter

Dr. Alexandra L. Montgomery is Manager of the Center for Digital History at the Washington Presidential Library at George Washington's Mount Vernon and one of the leads for the ARGO project. She holds a Ph.D. in early American history from the University of Pennsylvania. When she is not wrangling digital projects about George Washington, her work focuses on land speculation, settler expansion, and mapping in eighteenth century North America.