#OTD in 1777, Robert Erskine was appointed Geographer and Surveyor General to the Continental Army. His surveyors completed over 200 maps and surveys of the war’s northern theater for General Washington and the Army. Read more 👉 https://nga.mil/defining-moments/Mapping_the_Revolutionary_War_.html
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