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April 2025

The Percy map is the first record of the first battle of the American Revolution, sketched within hours of the deadly return from Lexington.

I could scarcely believe what I was seeing. Despite generations of research and hundreds of books on the American Revolution, here was a critically important, yet previously undocumented treasure—a detailed map of the retreat of British troops from Lexington drawn by Lord Hugh Percy himself, the general who commanded those regiments.

Hugh Percy
After a distinguished military career including four years serving in the American War of Independence, Hugh Percy returned to England and eventually inherited Alnwick Castle and his father's title as Duke of Northumberland.

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