File:Lexington Concord Siege of Boston.jpg

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English: A mostly accurate hand-colored map depicting the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston
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From the Library of Congress American Memory.
G3764.B6S3 1775 .D4 Vault
g3764b ar090000

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3764b.ar090000
Author J. DeCosta
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a PLAN of the

TOWN and HARBOUR of
Boston.
and the Country adjacent with the Road
from Boston to Concord
Shewing the Place of the late Engagement
between the King's Troops & the Provincials,
together with the several Encampments of
both Armies in & about Boston.
Taken from an Actual Survey
Humbly Inscribed to Rich d. Whitworth
Esqr. Member of Parliament for Stafford

by his most Obedient Servant J. De Costa

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References.

  1. The Nautilus Man of War lying above Charles
    Town Ferry 400 yards to Boston
  2. The Lively Man of War
  3. Men of War before Boston.
  4. Gen l. Gage's Camp on
    the Common.
  5. Bacon Hill [i.e. Beacon Hill]
  6. Fort Hill.
  7. Copps Hill.
  8. Gen l. Gage's Line on
    on Boston Neck.
  9. The Fortification.
  10. South Battery
  11. North Battery
  12. Provincial Battery
    gained by the King's Troo ps
    in the Battle 17 of June 1775
  13. Bunkers Hill at Cha s. T.
  14. School Hill at D o.
  15. Stores & Cannon destro d
    by the King's Troops
  16. The Schooner burnt at
    Nodles Island by Gen l.
    Putman
  17. Watch Boat from the Men of War.
  18. Gen l. Thomas's lines
    on Boston Neck
  19. Mill Pond

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London Publish'd as the Act directs July 29th. 1775 by J. De Costa Red Croſs Street Southwark.


This map is available from the United States Library of Congress's Geography & Map Division
under the digital ID g3764b.ar090000.
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