Being the promotion and dissolution of British power in North America, charted upon the "red line" map, 1755-1898; as remarked on the occasion of Patriot's Day in the State of Maine and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, April 21st, 1997

at the
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
University of Southern Maine

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"Please note: the content of this website has been corrected and expanded in two publications: Matthew H. Edney, "A Publishing History of John Mitchell’s 1755 Map of North America," Cartographic Perspectives, no. 58 (2007): 4-27 and 71-75, and idem, "John Mitchell’s Map of North America (1755): A Study of the Use and Publication of Official Maps in Eighteenth-Century Britain," Imago Mundi 60, no. 1 (2008): 63-85."