[American Revolution]: Hills, John, and William Faden:

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SKETCH OF THE POSITION OF THE BRITISH FORCES AT ELIZABETH TOWN POINT AFTER THEIR RETURN FROM CONNECTICUT FARM, IN THE PROVINCE OF EAST JERSEY: UNDER THE COMMAND OF HIS EXCELLY. LEIUTT. GENL. ... A very rare and fascinating Revolutionary War battle map and one of the very few relating to the British invasion of New Jersey. This finely engraved and superbly colored battle plan depicts the Battle of Elizabeth Town which occurred during the last major British campaign in the northern theatre of the American Revolution. As depicted on the map, this battle was fought on fields that lay to the south of the village of Elizabeth Town (today known simply as Elizabeth), a position bordered on three sides by salt marshes and water. In the spring of 1780, the British firmly controlled Manhattan, while New Jersey was controlled by the Americans, who were headquartered at Morristown. Lieutenant-General Wilhelm von Knyphausen, a Hessian baron who was then the British military commandant of New York decided to launch an invasion of New Jersey. Knyphausen's force of six thousand, mostly German mercenaries, encountered sharp resistance at Connecticut Farm, New Jersey, from a smaller but highly motivated American force under General Nathanael Greene. Knyphausen was able to proceed to Springfield Bridge, but the Americans managed to check him and to force him to retreat to the area of Elizabeth Town.The action portrayed on the map begins on the morning of June 8, 1780, with the depiction of Knyph

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