Visiting Boston neck with J. L. Bell and the Henry Pelham 1775–1776 map of the Siege of Boston from revolutionary war map of boston Watch Video
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Description: Author J. L. Bell and I spent a day going to sites in and around Boston that played a critical role in the siege of Boston and use Henry Pelham's 1775 - 1776 map of the Siege of Boston to show their strategic importance. Today the landscape in almost all cases is vastly different, so it's nearly impossible to understand the importance of those areas without an understanding of the geography at the time of the siege.nnThe map John is holding is reduced in size from the original colored aquatint m
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