This Mount Vernon produced map shows the region around New York City that became the focal point of the American Revolution during the Summer and Fall of 1776. This map shows the Battle of Long Island and other campaign actions including the Battle of Kip's Bay, The Battle of Harlem Heights, The Battle of Fort Washington, and the capture of Fort...

Description: general street map showing selected letter-keyed buildings in built-up area and field lines with generalized land use in rural areas. Relief shown by hachures. Also shows "Road to Kings Bridge where the Rebels mean to make a stand" and "Road to …

"Map of New York City and of Manhattan Island with the American defences in 1776" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 29, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee2f1060-d488-0135-3577-67321a8090bc. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1878).

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Dated Head Quarters, York Island, September 21, 1776. "Upon the Rebels abandoning their lines at Brooklyn, the King's army moved from Bedford, leaving Lieut. Gen Heister encamped upon the heights of Brooklyn with two brigades of Hessions, and one brigade of British at Bedford, and took five positions in the neighbourhood of New Town, Bushwick ...

Map of New York City and of Manhattan Island with the American defences in 1776: compiled by Henry P. Johnston ; F. von Egloffstein del [18??] Also covers Blackwell’s Island, Buchanan’s (now Ward’s) Island, Montressor’s (now Randall’s) Island, and a portion of New Jersey.

This map, by British army officer Bernard Ratzer, is the most accurate depiction of New York in its late colonial days. At the southern tip of Manhattan are the narrow, crooked streets of Dutch and English New York.

The provinces of New York and New Jersey; with part of Pensilvania, and the Province of Quebec. Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows administrative divisions. From Thomas Jeffery's American atlas. 1778.

This map was issued in direct response to renewed British interest in the colonies following the April 1776 outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. Following the early success of the New York Campaign, which forced George Washington and the Continental Army to flee New York City, the British must have imagined the war nearly over.

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