Google Maps of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848

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I just completed two maps, a Google Map of the War of 1812 using the coordinates found on Wikipedia's List of Battles of the War of 1812, and another Google Map on the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 using the coordinates found on Wikipedia's List of Battles of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. They are part of my web site's 150 Google Maps of Historic and Scientific Events found on MyReadingMapped. The maps enable you to zoom in close on the actual battlefields and forts of the war, and contained within each map is a Google Earth KML file that enables you to digitally walk the map in 3D and see any building structures that have been modeled. Each location plotted within the map is numbered in chronological order and links to a Wikipedia description of the battle.



Google Map of the War of 1812


Google Map of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848

I am not a chartographer in the usual sense, I plot maps of historical and scientific events. The only mythical maps I created are my Le Train: The Rescuing of the German-Looted French Art Train (1944) Fact vs. Fiction based on the Burt Lancaster movie The Train, and a map of The Exodus: According to the Book of Wikipedia. Otherwise my maps cover explorer expeditions, sunken ships, ancient ruins, wars, disease outbreaks, climate change, plate tectonics, hydrothermal vents and cold seeps.