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SAYER, Robert (1725-1794) and BENNETT, John, cartographers. The Seat of War in New England, by an American Volunteer, with the Marches of the Several other Corps Sent by the Colonies towards Boston, with the Attack on Bunker Hill. London: printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 2 September 1775. With two insets along the right side: "Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on Bunker's-Hill in the Peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June 1775"; and "Plan of Boston Harbour, from an Actual Survey."
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SAYER, Robert (1725-1794) and BENNETT, John, cartographers. The Seat of War in New England, by an American Volunteer, with the Marches of the Several other Corps Sent by the Colonies towards Boston, with the Attack on Bunker Hill. London: printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 2 September 1775. With two insets along the right side: "Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on Bunker's-Hill in the Peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June 1775"; and "Plan of Boston Harbour, from an Actual Survey."
2o (502 x 585). Engraved map, hand-colored. Early linen backing. Top margin with residue from earlier frame, small hole left-hand upper area affecting a very few letters text, light damp-stain to lower right hand area.
"THE SEAT OF WAR": BUNKER HILL AND THE BOSTON SIEGE, 1775
A very rare Revolutionary war map of New England, notable for its detailed depiction of the early phases of the Revolution. It was published in London a scant three months after the battle of Bunker's Hill, depicted here. Congress had named Washington General commanding on 17 June, and he took command of the American army on 3 July. The dramatic inset shows Charlestown in flames and British soldiers being landed from longboats. In the main map, the mobilization of the Continental Army is recorded: "March of the Troops from Connecticut...with a company of artillery;" "March of the Troops of New Hampshire...Provision wagons"; "Rangers from New Hampshire" and, from the west, the "March of General Washington," including his tent encampment at Worcester, bivouacs of "Virginia Horse" and "Riflemen." The plan of Boston is quite detailed, even showing the extensive British tent encampments around the Liberty Tree on Boston Common.
The inset is believed to derive from a 25 June 1775 letter from General Burgoyne to Lord Stanley: "Howe's corps ascending the hill in the face of entrenchments, and in a very disadvantageous ground, was much engaged; and to the left the enemy pouring in fresh troops by the thousands, over the land; and in the arm of the sea our ships and floating batteries cannonading them: straight before us a large and noble town in one great blaze; the church steeples, being of timber, were great pyramids of fire above the rest, the whole a picture and a complication of horror and importance beyond any thing that ever came to my lot to be witness to." The inset constitutes the second printed plan of the battle and is regarded as the first pictorial representation. Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, 150/6; Krieger & Cobb, Mapping Boston, p.103; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 775.1; Nebenzahl, Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 6 & 6a; c.f. Ristow, Cartography of the Battle of Bunker Hill; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, plate 117.
2o (502 x 585). Engraved map, hand-colored. Early linen backing. Top margin with residue from earlier frame, small hole left-hand upper area affecting a very few letters text, light damp-stain to lower right hand area.
"THE SEAT OF WAR": BUNKER HILL AND THE BOSTON SIEGE, 1775
A very rare Revolutionary war map of New England, notable for its detailed depiction of the early phases of the Revolution. It was published in London a scant three months after the battle of Bunker's Hill, depicted here. Congress had named Washington General commanding on 17 June, and he took command of the American army on 3 July. The dramatic inset shows Charlestown in flames and British soldiers being landed from longboats. In the main map, the mobilization of the Continental Army is recorded: "March of the Troops from Connecticut...with a company of artillery;" "March of the Troops of New Hampshire...Provision wagons"; "Rangers from New Hampshire" and, from the west, the "March of General Washington," including his tent encampment at Worcester, bivouacs of "Virginia Horse" and "Riflemen." The plan of Boston is quite detailed, even showing the extensive British tent encampments around the Liberty Tree on Boston Common.
The inset is believed to derive from a 25 June 1775 letter from General Burgoyne to Lord Stanley: "Howe's corps ascending the hill in the face of entrenchments, and in a very disadvantageous ground, was much engaged; and to the left the enemy pouring in fresh troops by the thousands, over the land; and in the arm of the sea our ships and floating batteries cannonading them: straight before us a large and noble town in one great blaze; the church steeples, being of timber, were great pyramids of fire above the rest, the whole a picture and a complication of horror and importance beyond any thing that ever came to my lot to be witness to." The inset constitutes the second printed plan of the battle and is regarded as the first pictorial representation. Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, 150/6; Krieger & Cobb, Mapping Boston, p.103; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 775.1; Nebenzahl, Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 6 & 6a; c.f. Ristow, Cartography of the Battle of Bunker Hill; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, plate 117.