An Accurate Map of the Present Seat of War between Great Britain and Her Colonies in North America. Hand-colored engraving. London: Universal Magazine, October 1776.
This map of a section of North America was made for a British audience and shows each colony in a different color. New York includes part of present-day Ontario, Virginia stretches north to encompass Lake Michigan, and the French territory of Louisiana stops at the Canadian border. The locations of Indigenous nations were important because both the rebelling colonists and the British were recruiting Native American allies. Although the colonists won the war, the Native American nations who supported them did not. Negotiators excluded these nations from discussions surrounding the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and both British- and colonial-allied Native nations saw their lands ceded to the new United States.