COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
4822
File Name:
4822-000
Call number:
Cabinet Cb775 /6
Map title:
A sketch of the action between the British forces and the American provincials on the heights of the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June 1775
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Jefferys & Faden, ye cornoer of St. Martins Lane
Publication date:
1.1775
Map size height:
34 cm.
Map size width:
31 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map, colored
Geographical description:
Map of Boston during the Revolutionary War. Shows movements of opposing forces during the Battle of Bunker Hill. Key, lettered A-T. Table of references provides further information on movements. Charlestown expressed by figures of houses. Below title, "engraved by Jefferys & Faden."
Cartobibliographic notes:
Based on ms. map with same title by John Humpfrey. Earliest published plan devoted wholly to the Battle of Bunker Hill.
References:
Nebenzahl, Bib. of printed battle plans, no. 24; Guthorn, British maps, 61, no. 1
Geographic Area:
North America
Scale 1:
ca. 14,000
Normalized date:
1775
LC bibliographic number:
53846965
A sketch of the action between the British forces and the American provincials on the heig...
