Raynors HCA 2015-11
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“A plan of the Action at Bunkers Hill, on the 17th. of June, 1775, Between HIS Majesty's Troops Under the Command of Major General Howe and the Rebel Forces, By Lieut Page of teh Engineeers, who acted as Aide de Campe to Genearl Howe in that Action” 17” x 19,” engraved by W.E. Goldsmith, Boston, 1851, presented in a modern frame, VG. This is Frothingham's edition of Faden's important Revolutionary War battle plan of Bunker Hill. Faden's plan of Bunker Hill is one of the earliest and most famous of Faden's battle plans of the American Revolution. The map captures the action in and around the American Fortifications at Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill, in what would become the most famous of all early battles of the American Revolution. Washington had boldly fortified the area under the nose of the British in the days prior to the battle and worked all night to establish strong fortifications the night before the battle. Thomas Hyde Page, an English military engineer who served as aide de campe to General Howe during the action, prepared this detailed plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is the best known plan of the battle. Originally published by Faden shortly after the battle, this edition of the map appeared in 1793, accompanying Stedman's History of the American War. It depicts redoubts, fences, and hedgerows in great detail, as well as the lines of march of attacking forces, British ships, and the Corps Hill battery with lines of fire.
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