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Page, an English military engineer who served as aide de campe to General Howe during the action, prepared this detailed plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is the best known and most commonly reproduced plan of the battle. Warren's redoubt, fences, and hedgerows are shown in great detail, as well as the lines of march of attacking forces, British ships, and the Corps Hill battery with lines of fire. The position of British troops late in the action is depicted on a separate overlay which accompanies the map.
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3f462x251
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A plan of the action at Bunkers Hill, on the 17th. of June, 1775
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map
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3f462x251
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map
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title
A plan of the action at Bunkers Hill, on the 17th. of June, 1775
description
Page, an English military engineer who served as aide de campe to General Howe during the action, prepared this detailed plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is the best known and most commonly reproduced plan of the battle. Warren's redoubt, fences, and hedgerows are shown in great detail, as well as the lines of march of attacking forces, British ships, and the Corps Hill battery with lines of fire. The position of British troops late in the action is depicted on a separate overlay which accompanies the map.
date
["[1778?]"]
year
1778
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_001240
creators
Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821
Montrésor, John, 1736-1799
Faden, William, 1749-1836
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Mapping Boston Collection
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775--Maps--Early works to 1800
Boston (Mass.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Bunker Hill
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Maps
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Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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1
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pubPlace
London
publisher
William Faden
Source extras
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sf268508b
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jq086303k
citySection
Bunker Hill
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 49 x 43 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
"N.B. The ground plan is from an actual survey by Captn. Montresor."
An overlay (15 x 23 cm.) tipped on at the middle right shows the first position of the troops.
This map can be viewed as a georeferenced overlay in an interactive application made especially for We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence http://d2o8owo4k087al.cloudfront.net/index.html?mapId=60.
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3f462x251
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map
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photo
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