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The engraver used hundreds of fine parallel lines to show elevation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe depth soundings scattered across the harbor, each number recording the water depth in fathoms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe colored washes marking troop positions. 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June 17, 1775. Troop movements are marked across the Charlestown peninsula, with an \"Explanation\" key indexing the positions of British and American forces. The soft pink washes marking troop formations, warm tan of the peninsula, and blue-green of the surrounding water give the map the quality of a field sketch made under pressure, not a finished cartographic product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe troop movement arrows across the peninsula. The British advanced uphill against entrenched American positions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe \"Explanation\" key indexing military positions, troops, and points of interest.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe watercolor washes are loose and unfinished, pink for troop positions, tan for the peninsula, blue-green for the harbor, giving it the urgency of a sketch made under pressure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271570669746,"sku":"FOLIO-z603vj657-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271570768050,"sku":"FOLIO-z603vj657-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/z603vj657-8x10.jpg?v=1775761560"},{"product_id":"siege-of-boston-1776","title":"Siege of Boston, 1776","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis French map from George Washington's own collection shows the siege lines around Boston in precise detail. American forces, marked in red, are arrayed in three corps ringing the city. The map's most telling feature is what it reveals about Dorchester Heights: the British left it unfortified, a tactical gap that Washington exploited on March 17, 1776, forcing the British evacuation. Published in Paris by the Chevalier de Beaurain, the map exaggerates British fortifications on Boston Neck and Castle William Island. The French cartographer, working from a captured British plan, may have inflated the defenses the Americans had overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eDorchester Heights on the map. It's shown without British fortifications, the gap that decided the siege.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe three American corps are marked in red surrounding the city, their positions extending from Cambridge to Roxbury.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe harbor soundings. Depth markings show where British warships could maneuver and where the water was too shallow.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271575290034,"sku":"FOLIO-t722hs83w-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271575388338,"sku":"FOLIO-t722hs83w-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×16","offer_id":47211015962802,"sku":"FOLIO-t722hs83w-POSTER-12x16","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×20","offer_id":47271575486642,"sku":"FOLIO-t722hs83w-POSTER-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18×24","offer_id":47211016061106,"sku":"FOLIO-t722hs83w-POSTER-18x24","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/t722hs83w-8x10.jpg?v=1775761689"},{"product_id":"his-majestys-army-at-boston-1776","title":"His Majesty's Army at Boston, 1776","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eDrawn by an engineer at Boston in October 1775 and published in London by Andrew Dury, this map labels every fort, defensive work, and troop position around the besieged city. The Continental Army encircles Boston from Cambridge to Roxbury, while British forces hold the peninsula and its harbor fortifications. Richard Williams drew the original survey, and the hand coloring, applied to a 46-by-65-centimeter engraving, distinguishes British and American positions. The map's subtitle states its perspective plainly: 'shewing the true situation of His Majesty's army, and also those of the rebels.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe ring of Continental Army positions from Cambridge through Roxbury. The siege line that strangled British supply routes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe fortifications on Boston Neck, the narrow land bridge where British and American defenses faced each other at close range.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe map's orientation places north toward the upper right; a compass indicator marks the direction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271578108082,"sku":"FOLIO-3f462w352-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271578206386,"sku":"FOLIO-3f462w352-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×18","offer_id":47271578304690,"sku":"FOLIO-3f462w352-POSTER-12x18","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×20","offer_id":47271578402994,"sku":"FOLIO-3f462w352-POSTER-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20×30","offer_id":47271578501298,"sku":"FOLIO-3f462w352-POSTER-20x30","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/3f462w352-8x10.jpg?v=1775761757"},{"product_id":"king-street-boston-1778","title":"King Street, Boston, 1778","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis is not a map but a street-level view. A hand-colored optical print produced in Augsburg by Franz Xaver Habermann. The series title is printed in reverse, designed to be viewed through a zograscope, a lens-and-mirror device that created a three-dimensional effect. The scene shows King Street (now State Street) leading toward the town gate, with figures in colonial dress walking between pink and yellow building facades. Habermann never visited Boston; he worked from published descriptions and other prints, producing an idealized European vision of the colonial city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe series title at the top is printed in mirror-reverse. This print was made to be viewed through a zograscope lens, which would flip the text back to normal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe building facades: the vivid pinks and yellows are a European colorist's imagination of Boston, not an eyewitness record.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe figures in the street. Their clothing and posture follow European conventions, not colonial American dress.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271578632370,"sku":"FOLIO-cj82kx82k-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×16","offer_id":47211018617010,"sku":"FOLIO-cj82kx82k-POSTER-12x16","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/cj82kx82k-11x14.jpg?v=1775761774"},{"product_id":"boston-to-concord-1775","title":"Boston to Concord, 1775","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe road from Boston to Concord runs across the center of this map, marking the route of the April 19, 1775 engagement that started the American Revolution. Originally published in London on July 29, 1775, just three months after the battles of Lexington and Concord, this facsimile reproduces J. De Costa's survey of troop encampments, harbor fortifications, and the countryside between the two towns. Depth soundings fill Boston Harbor, and an index identifies points of military interest. The map was reproduced from the original print held at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe road from Boston to Concord across the map. This is the route the British regulars marched on April 19, 1775.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe encampment positions of both armies marked around Boston: British forces inside the city, American forces ringing the approaches.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe harbor soundings show where British warships could anchor to support the garrison. 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Henry Pelham's aquatint, engraved in London by Francis Jukes, is the finest printed battle plan of the Revolutionary War's New England theater, covering Boston, Charlestown, Roxbury, Cambridge, and Medford with their military works from 1775 and 1776. Pelham, a Loyalist and half-brother of John Singleton Copley, personally surveyed the rebel lines under a military passport issued two months after Bunker Hill. This copy is one of roughly six known examples bearing his manuscript signature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe facsimile of Pelham's passport in the upper left. It authorized him to examine enemy fortifications from behind their own lines.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe American entrenchments on Dorchester Heights; these are the works that forced the British evacuation in March 1776.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe dedication to Lord George Germain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is engraved in the margin. 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Depths are rendered by soundings and color washes, the harbor islands are carefully outlined, and the coastline carries the precision of a working survey rather than a decorative print. It is a British administrative tool. The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations needed to know exactly what they were trying to hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe depth soundings scattered across the harbor. Each number represents a fathom measurement taken by hand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe coastline is drawn with the precision of a working survey. 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The map marks redoubts, fences, hedgerows, and the precise lines of march of the attacking British columns. An overlay tipped onto the middle right shows the first troop positions; the main map beneath shows the second. This copy, published in Stedman's History of the American War, carries hand-applied color washes in pink, blue, and green that distinguish the opposing forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe overlay, designated No. 1, shows the first position of the troops; the main map beneath shows the second.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe lines of fire from the Corps Hill battery across the water toward the American redoubt on Breed's Hill.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe fence lines and hedgerows drawn between the troop positions. 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This is the city as a military installation, its streets and wharves subordinated to defensive geometry during the eleven-month siege.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe hatched fortification lines along Boston Neck, that narrow isthmus was the only land approach, and the British fortified it heavily.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe two 'References' tables at the bottom distinguish military works from civic landmarks, revealing what the army cared about versus what the town contained.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe hachure marks showing relief. 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The scale of roughly 1:12,000 is tight enough to show individual fence lines and hedgerows on the Charlestown peninsula where the fighting took place on June 17, 1775.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Burgoyne letter printed below the map. It is a firsthand British account of the battle written to a family member, not a superior.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe batteries marked on the Boston side of the harbor, their lines of fire reaching across the water to Charlestown.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe hand-coloring that distinguishes British positions from American ones. 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France had entered the war in February 1778, and its fleet needed navigational intelligence for American waters. City blocks on the Boston peninsula are colored in different shades, the harbor islands are carefully outlined, and radiating rhumb lines provide compass bearings for approaching ships. Soundings, shoals, and channel markings fill the water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe rhumb lines radiating across the harbor. They provided compass bearings for French navigators approaching Boston.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe soundings dotting the harbor and channels; each number is a depth measurement translated from British surveys.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe colored city blocks on the Boston peninsula. 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Robert Sayer and John Bennett published this composite in London on September 2, 1775, drawn 'by an American volunteer.' Hand-colored in yellow, green, and pink, it was designed to help a British audience follow the opening weeks of the war from across the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eIn the Bunker Hill inset, the burning buildings of Charlestown are visible. The British set the town on fire during their assault.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe troop march lines on the regional map; they converge on Boston from Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe prime meridian references both London and Boston, with dual notation along the top edge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271597736114,"sku":"FOLIO-z603vg396-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271597834418,"sku":"FOLIO-z603vg396-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/z603vg396-8x10.jpg?v=1775762312"},{"product_id":"boston-harbor-chart-1776","title":"Boston Harbor Chart, 1776","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eRhumb lines radiate from a central point in the harbor like a geometric star, the signature of a working nautical chart. 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