For published maps, we provide the publication date.
For manuscript maps we indicate the date the maps were drawn.
In the list below we attribute the maps to the cartographers who created them, rather than to the publishers who printed and distributed them, except for Sayer and Bennett’s simple map of the Battle of Bunker Hill, for which the cartographer is not identified, and Jean Lattré’s 1784 map of the United States, for which the cartographic details were compiled from existing maps. A pristine copy of the the Bauman map is one of the special treasures of the American Revolution Institute. Immensely proud of his accomplishment, Bauman oversaw the engraving and publication of the map and its distribution to the American and French officers who purchased it. By the end of the war, Continental Army engineer Sebastian Bauman was able to create a map of the Siege of Yorktown comparable to the best British and French military maps. As in other aspects of the art of war, they imitated European models and grew more proficient. The maps of British engineer Charles Blaskowitz and French engineer Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy are among the finest military maps ever created.Īmerican engineers generally lacked the training to produce sophisticated maps. European military engineers were trained as cartographers, and many used pen, ink and watercolor to produce extraordinary manuscript maps. These ten reflect the variety of fine maps created during the Revolutionary War and are distinguished for their detail.īy the late eighteenth century, military mapmaking had become a fine art.
They were created to support and document military operations as well as to inform the public about the course of the war. Revolutionary War maps range from hasty sketches of roads and paths to elaborate topographical charts depicting elevations, roads, streams and buildings.
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