In May, 1776, General Howe, undisturbed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, exercised his troops “in line,” as depicted above by Edward Barron. Howe had been forced to evacuate Boston on March 17; at Halifax, he prepared, with reinforcements, for the coming battle for New York. Percy’s name appears with his command. The map of Newport below was made by Lieutenant Thomas Fage, Royal Artillery, in January, 1779 and sent to Percy in England, where he had retired after helping capture Newport following his victory at Fort Washington.
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.