MAPS OF HISTORY · AGE OF REVOLUTIONS · MAPS BY YEAR · April 1775The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848 · THE MAP IN APR 1775
Map of the Atlantic world in April 1775
The world of empires · Age of Revolutions
The Atlantic world in April 1775: The world of empires. The map shows who held what: Colonial possessions, Britain & its empire.
APR 1775 · THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS, 1775–1848 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0 Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain Annual source outlines can combine imperial claims with areas of control. The labels identify the historical role selected, while dates finer than the source interval are made explicit in these details.
The 1774 record is the closest available footprint of British colonies before the war. The publisher’s 1775 record removes the mainland colonies too early, leaving them unassigned until 1776; the 1774 record keeps them in place at the opening of the revolution. Imperial claims did not necessarily mean settled occupation or Indigenous consent.
proxy: 1772–1774 footprint for April 1775 · reconstruction: 1775.3 · vector: 1709–1808 · vector: 1718–1780 · vector: 1763–1779 · vector: 1775–1775 · vector: 1775–1777
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On the ground West of the Mississippi lie French–Spanish Louisiana and the far north of New Spain; this territory is not part of the republic until 1803. The chapters of this moment
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