“By an American Volunteer, with the Marches of the Several Corps Sent by the Colonies Towards Boston, with the Attack on Bunker Hill.”
This map is one of the earliest accounts of the Battle of Bunker hill. Created three months after the encounter, it details the march of the British soldiers toward George Washington’s army in Cambridge. The battle is marked by two crossed swords in the west. It was conceived from a letter from General Burgoyne to Lord Stanley in 1775, and was intended to inform the British public of the empire’s victory. Published as an attractive broadside. the map is detailed with troops, horses and cannons. Credited to an “American Volunteer,” the map is considered one of the most accurate American maps of the period, and “without question the best pictorial account of conflict.”
John Bennett
The Seat of War in New England
London: Robert Sayer, 1775
Copper Engraving
Osher Collection
“A geographical description of the whole continent of America-Wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and islands and chiefly the British colonies. Engraved on 48 copper-plates by Thomas Jefferys and others”
The American Atlas
London: Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1775
Smith Collection
“To His Excellency Sr. Henry Moore, Bart., Captain General and Governour in Chief, In and Over His Majesty’s Province of New York and the Territories depending theron in America Chancellor and Vive Admiral of the Same. This Plan, of the City of New York and its Environs, Survey’d and Laid down: Is Most Humbly Dedicated by His Excellency’s Most Obed. Humble Servant, B. Ratzer Lieut in His Majesty’s 60th or Royal American Regt.”
Bernard Ratzer was a British military engineer during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. In 1769 Sir Henry Moore, the governor of New York, commissioned Ratzer to survey the border of New York and New Jersey.
Bernard Ratzer and Thomas Kitchin
Plan of the City of New York in North America
London: Jefferys and Faden, 1776
Sheet Map
Smith Collection
“being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular of the British colonies especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of engineers De Brahm and R’mans Cook, Jackson, and Collet Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty’s fleets and armies”
The American Military Pocket Atlas
London: Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1776
Smith Collection
“An Authentic Plan of the Western Part of Long Island, with the Engagement of the 27th August, 1776, between the King’s Forces and the Americans: also containing Staten Island, and the environs of Amboy and New York, with the course of Hudson River, from Courland the Great Magazine of the American Army, to Sandy Hook”
The Seat of Action, Between the British and American Forces
London: Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1776
Copper Engraving
Smith Collection
“Part of Northern British possessions in America. To serve as intelligence for the present War between the English and their colonies erected on the best card of the Englishman translated countries Michel, Paris, Hotel de Soubise, 1778.”
John Mitchell
Partie Septentrionale des possessions Anglaise en Amerique
Paris, 1778
Sheet Map
Osher Collection
“Being the Seat of War Between the King’s Forces Under Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne and the Rebel Army.”
Richard Baldwin
Part of the Counties of Charlotte and Albany, in the Province of New York
London, 1778
Sheet Map
Smith Collection