Category: Biography

Refined by: (Author) Ed Redmond

Brown, red, and yellow tinted map illustration of the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, with a circular frame around them

Millard Fillmore: Lawyer, President, and Map Collector!

July 18, 2019

President Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) was elected to the Office of the Vice President of the United States in 1848 and, due to the untimely death of President Zachary Taylor in 1850, Fillmore became the 13th President of the United States. From the standpoint of the Geography and Map Division, however, Millard Fillmore’s most important contribution …

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British Spy Map of Lexington and Concord: A Detective Story

April 18, 2016

Posted by: Ed Redmond

In school, we all learned about Paul Revere and his famous April 18, 1775 ride through the Massachusetts countryside warning of an impending British armed force marching from Boston, MA to the small towns of Lexington and Concord. But, of course, there is much more to the story, including the British commander of all troops …

Posted in: American History, Biography, Manuscripts

Refined by: (Author) Ed Redmond