Sketch of the action between the British forces and American provincials, on the heights of the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th June 1775.
Scale ca. 1:13,800. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Shows troop movements. Includes "Explanation," an index to troops and points of military interest. Vault AACR2: 650
- Date
- 1775
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Humfrey, John
- Place
- Boston
- Scale
- 1:13,800
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 4,056 × 4,702 pixels
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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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