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AMERICAN REVOLUTION – SAYER, Robert (1725-1794), and BENNETT, John (fl. 1770s) (publishers). A Plan of the Battle, on Bunkers Hill. Fought on the 17 th of June 1775 . London: R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 27 November 1775. A large broadside map showing the plan for the first major battle of the American Revolution, in Boston’s Bunker Hill . Among its key features are the British landing places at the east end of Charlestown, the Cobbs Hill battery at the north end of Boston, and the position of the British warships. The plan includes General Burgoyne’s description of the action (excerpted from a letter written to his nephew Lord Stanley) – he explains the original British plan to take Dorchester Heights in South Boston, which was thwarted by the American fortification of Bunker Hill. Nebenzahl and Higgenbotham 3; Nebenzahl 28. Engraved map, 560 x 394mm (sheet size), framed (laid down, some soiling, neat repairs, not examined out of frame).