The “Plan of the Peninsula” above, drawn by Captain Edward Barron of the King’s Own Regiment, shows the Charlestown peninsula after the British had won the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Actually, the point of attack was a small American redoubt on Breed’s Hill (right of center). Lord Percy was elsewhere that day. By the time this map was drawn, the British had built a much bigger fort on higher Bunker Hill (left), and fortified Charlestown Neck behind it, leading to the mainland.
Return to “Rediscovering Hand-Drawn Maps from the Revolution and the English Duke Who Collected Them,” by Edwin S. Grosvenor, American Heritage, Summer 2019
Return to “The Treasure of Alnwick Castle,” by Elizabeth and William Cumming, American Heritage, August 1969