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Order of battle of the army under the command of Lt. General Gage at Boston [and map of Charlestown], July 17th, 1775 2 Sheets Closed Stacks, Drawer 33

2 sheets. Ink and watercolor manuscript map and key. Map shows fortifications and rough features of the peninsula of Boston. Key indicates the order of battle of British troops. The disposition of troops on July 17th, 1775 was possibly intended to be added to the map.

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Plan de Boston, cette ville est composée quatre mille maisons, et d'environ vingt mille habitants, 1755 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section 5

Subject: Plan of the city of Boston.

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Plan de la ville et du port de Boston : capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre, 1764 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section 2

Displayed here is the first state of Lattre's plan of Boston. The plan here was also separately issued. Describing Boston in the years before the American Revolutionary war, the plan includes information on shoals, soundings in the harbor, and the surrounding countryside. Lattre was the Royal Engraver to Louis XVI from 1776 to 1782, and is most famous for his "Carte des Etats-Unis ...," also in the Richard H. Brown collection.

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Plan of the battle, on Bunker's Hill : fought on the 17th of June 1775, 1775 1 Sheets Closed Stacks, Drawer 40

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[The burnt ruins of Charlestown from across the Charles River], 1775 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section 4

Pencil manuscript view of the ruins of Charlestown after the Battle of Bunker Hill.

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To the Hone. Jno. Hancock, Esqre. president of ye Continental Congress, this map of the seat of civil war in America, is respectfully inscribed by his most obedient humble servant, 1775 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section 3

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[Troops on parade, the Charles River and Castle Island], 1775 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section 3

Ink and watercolor manuscript view from Boston looking southeast towards Dorchester and Castle Island. Shows British soldiers and parts of the encampment and town.

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[View of the Charles River], 1775 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section 4

Pencil manuscript view of the Charles River.

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William Reynolds Diary, 1841 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Reynolds, William

Extracts from a diary of a tour of the eastern states by a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, with descriptions of travel through Greenbrier, Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia. Subjects covered include descriptions of buildings, as well as musings about diversions and people of various U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. (where Reynolds attended a session of Congress and heard Clay, Calhoun and Buchanan), Richmond, Charlottesville (he visited Monticello), Charleston, and a number of smaller Virginia cities. There are also descriptions of "natural wonders", including Weirs Cave, Devil's Bake Oven, the Natural Bridge, White Sulphur Springs, and Kanawha Falls.

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