Early British history of the Revolution through 1779, adapted from the accounts in the Annual Register and often attributed to the pro-American political philosopher Edmund Burke.
"Contains in the most concise form the most able, impartial, and authentic history of the dispute which can be found"--Smyth, Lectures on Modern History. Adams, American Controversy 80-45. Burke was a frequent editor and principal contributor of the Annual Register. Beginning in 1776, the magazine began a series that offered "the most able, impartial and authentic history of the dispute which can be found.... Understood to be drawn up by Burke..., the arguments on each side are displayed with an impartiality that is quite admirable" (Church).
Folding frontispiece map of North America, based upon John Mitchell's map of 1755.
The map includes a number of important political details of the time, including the "Limits of Virginia & New England reaching from Sea to Sea by the Charters of James I," the "Bounds ofthe Hudson Bay Company Treaty of Utrecht," and "Bounds of Carolina by Charter 1665."
Many of the early French Forts in Mississippi and Ohio Valleys are shown, which were the subject matter of English antagonism on the eve of the French & Indian War. English and French Forts are noted throughout the frontier lands. The map pre-dates appearance of Delaware on the map, with the boundary of Pennsylvania extending south to approximately Cape Hinalopen, which reflects the then nearly resolved dispute between the Penn Family and Lord Baltimore over control of the Del-Mar-Va peninsula.
The map shows the early Colonial Boundaries, as claimed by the English, although the colorist has cut off the extensions to toward the Pacific Ocean, in deference to the claims of the French (Louisiana) and Spain. A number of early Indian Tribes are also shown.
The portraits, include:
- George Washington
- Benjamin Franklin
- John Hancock
- Benedict Arnold
- Horatio Gates
- Samuel Adams
- William Howe
- Robert Hopkins
- Charles Lee
- General Putnam
- David Wooster
- American Rifleman
- and others.