One of the more ambitious projects undertaken by the Department of History at the United States Military Academy (USMA) was the creation of maps to use in the required coures on military history.

I had the great opportunity of being able to teach at in the Department of History, USMA on two separate occasions - the first from 84-7, the second from 93-6. The map collections the department had were superb resources and have been updated over a period of years. An example map (the battle of Rossbach) is shown to the left. Valuable as resources for teachers, they also are good sources for gamers interested in setting up miniatures recreations of battles.

I had a chance to know Mr. Krasnoborsky, the department cartographer who was the "father" of many of these maps. He was a very polite and charming individual and the maps are a tribute to his skills. He told me once that he had been the cartographer for the US Third Army in WW2 and that George C. Scott's portrayal of Patton was "very accurate"!

You can view the map collection on the USMA web site. This was correct as of November 2007, but given the nature of the web and changing military assignments, this may not always be the correct link.

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Arthur (208.54.200.92) 2007-11-22 11:44:23 Interesting start ... I recently obtained the texts for some of these too. I've long had copies of Esposito's set on American Military History ... Reply | Quote 0   0

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