New The Peak 5 History Maps Of 2013

Tacky's Rebellion, was an uprising of dark African slaves that occurred inwards Jamaica inwards May, June together with July 1760. The Jamaican Slave Revolt Map tells the storey of the revolt, together with its fell suppression past times the British Army.

Using contemporary accounts the map animates through the of import events together with locations inwards the rebellion together with subsequent suppression. H5N1 reveal of eighteenth-century maps were used to do the terrain map together with the places map, which assort the base of operations maps for the narration.

The Jamaican Slave Revolt map was created past times Vincent Brown, Professor of History together with African together with African-American Studies at Harvard University. Brown says that "the map suggests an declaration near the strategies of the rebels together with the tactics of counterinsurgency, near the importance of the landscape to the course of study of the uprising".


One of the best history maps I saw this twelvemonth is this ESRI map displaying the Decisive Moments inwards the Battle of Gettysburg. The map shows troop movements together with the evolution of the battle during July 1 – 3, 1863.

The map tiles are based on an 1874 map of the expanse together with also present-day digital data. The troop positions are determined from historical maps. The map also includes an interactive time-line that allows the user to stance the evolution of the battle over the whole 3 days.


This twelvemonth saw the 70th anniversary of the World War II Dambuster raids. On 16–17 May 1943 an assail on High German dams, carried out past times Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, later known every bit the "Dambusters", used a peculiarly developed "bouncing bomb" invented together with developed past times Barnes Wallis.

To commemorate the anniversary the BBC position together an interactive map that retraces the mission. The interactive uses a hand-drawn map from the official June 1943 British Air Ministry written report on the Dambusters raid. The map shows the routes taken past times the planes, the location of the planes that crashed together with the location of the High German dams.


The Vilnius Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto established together with operated past times Nazi Deutschland inwards the urban gist of Vilnius, Lithuania. During the 2 years of its existence, starvation, disease, street executions, maltreatment together with deportations to concentration camps together with extermination camps reduced the population of the ghetto from an estimated 40,000 to zero.

Exploring the Vilnius Ghetto: H5N1 Digital Monument is a Leaflet powered map that shows over 2 hundred points of historical significance, pulled from memoirs, archives, master Ghetto documents together with artifacts, together with oral together with historical accounts. Users tin explore the map on their own, using filters to discovery places together with events of interest; or they tin follow built-in stories.


What did teenagers do earlier prison theatre mobile telephone phones, video games together with the internet? I know - they made maps.

At to the lowest degree that what Frances Alsop Henshaw was doing inwards the 1820's. Henshaw's 'Book of Penmanship Executed at the Middlebury Female Academy' contains a reveal of hand-drawn maps of nineteenth century America.

Neatline.org has used its map timeline tool to do an interactive presentation of Henshaw's beautiful hand-drawn maps. 'Inventing the Map': Frances Henshaw’s Book of Penmanship uses the Google Maps API to overlay Henshaw's nineteenth century maps on today's map of America.

The accompanying text for each map places Henshaw's map exercises into the context of her instruction together with the item influence of educational reformer Emma Willard.

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