" ... Although a substantial body of colonial surveys had evolved by the mid-eighteenth century, few were of value in the theater of war or to military operations in America. To what extent the British were able to remedy this deficiency is the subject of this book"--Introduction.

Includes index.

1775: Lexington & Concord -- Siege of Boston -- Breed's Hill -- Great Bridge -- Into Canada -- 1776: Charleston Harbor -- Long Island -- White Plains -- Forts Washington and Lee -- Newport -- Lake Champlain -- New Jersey Invasion -- 1777: Princeton -- Danbury -- Fort Schuyler and Oriskany -- Bennington -- Saratoga -- Brandywine -- Paoli and Philadelphia -- Germantown -- Forts Mercer and Mifflin -- Valley Forge -- 1778: Monmouth -- Hessian Foraging -- Rhode Island -- Kaskaskia and Vincennes -- Savannah -- 1779: Prevost in South Carolina -- Chesapeake Bay -- Stony Point -- Penobscot Bay -- Paulus Hook -- Sullivan's Expedition -- 1780: Mobile -- Charleston -- Camden -- 1781: Guilford Court House -- Hobkirk's hill -- New Haven -- Virginia Strategy -- Yorktown -- New London -- Pensacola.