Digital History Center - Atlases

Digital History Center - Atlases

About Our Atlases

In 1938, the predecessors of today's Department of History at the United States Military Academy (USMA) began developing a series of campaign atlases to aid in teaching cadets a course entitled, "History of the Military Art." Since then, the department has produced over six atlases and more than 1,000 maps, encompassing not only America’s wars but global conflicts as well.

In keeping abreast with today's technology, the Department of History provides these maps on the internet as part of the department's outreach program. The maps were created by USMA's Department of History and are in most cases digital versions of maps in the atlases printed by the United States Defense Printing Agency.

We gratefully acknowledge the accomplishments of the department's current and former cartographers, Mr. Edward J. Krasnoborski, Mr. Frank Martini, Mr. Raymond Hrinko, and Mr. Jeff Goldberg. For permission to reprint these maps, please contact Mr. Jeff Goldberg at (845) 938-2264 or by email. 

Conflict Atlases

Ancient and Medieval Map Symbols

Animations are provided courtesy of the Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army. 

*  1776 *  Saratoga *  Southern Campaigns
*  Battle of Bunker Hill  *  The West Point Saratoga Staff Ride Atlas

Napoleonic Map Symbology

The Italian Campaigns

The Egyptian Campaigns

The Marengo Campaign

The Expansion of France

The Ulm Campaign

The Austerlitz Campaign

The Expansion of the Empire

The Jena Campaign

The Eylau and Friedland Campaigns

The Treaty of Tilsit and the Continental System

Defending the Grande Empire

The Campaign in Spain

The Danube Campaign

The War in the Peninsula

The Napoleon Family System

The Russian Campaign

The Leipzig Campaign

The Campaign in France

The Waterloo Campaign

Europe 1810 - 1815

 The following PowerPoint presentation is provided as a courtesy from the United States Combat Institute Studies. 

Symbology for the Civil War

First Bull Run Campaign

Henry and Donelson Campaign

Shiloh Campaign

Eastern Theater, 1862

Jackson's Valley Campaign

Campaigns Around Richmond

Antietam Campaign

War in the West

War At Sea

Vicksburg Campaign

Fredericksburg Campaign

Chancellorsville Campaign

Gettysburg Campaign

Tennessee Campaign

Southeastern United States, 1864

Road to Richmond

Road to Atlanta

Franklin and Nashville Campaign

Southeastern United States, 1864-65

Siege of Petersburg

Northern Virginia, 1864-65

Animations are provided courtesy of the Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army 

World War I Map Symbols

  1. World in 1914
  2. Europe, 1914 - Lines Drawn
  3. Northwest Europe, 1914, Western Front, Schlieffen Plan and the French Plan
  4. Central Europe, 1914,, Eastern Front, War Plans and Concentration Areas
  5. Northwest Europe, 1914, Concentration Areas of Opposing Armies, 2 August 1914
  6. Eastern France and Belgium, 1914 - Advance of German Right Wing, Battle of Frontiers
  7. Northwest Europe, 1914 - Allied Retreat, 26-30 August 1914
  8. Northwest Europe, 1914 - Allied Retreat, 30 August - 5 September
  9. Northwest Europe, 1914 - Battle of the Marne, Situation 9 September
  10. Northwest Europe, 1914 - German Withdrawal to the Aisne and Stabilization of the Front
  11. Northwest Europe, 1915 - Stabilized Front, January 1915 - December 1915
  12. Verdun and Vicinity, 1916 - Battle of Verdun, Situation 21 February 1916
  13. Peronne and Vicinity, 1916 - Battle of the Somme, Situation 1 July - 19 November 1916
  14. Northeastern Italy, 1915 - 1917 - 11 Battles of the Isonzo, June 1915 - September 1917
  15. Northeastern Italy, 1915 - 1917 - Battle of Caporetto, 24 October - 12 November 1917
  16. Western Front, 1917, Battle of Arras and the Second Battle of the Aisne
  17. The Battle of Messines, Third Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Cambrai
  18. Western Front, Gaines of the Five German Offensives, March-July 1918
  19. Lys Offensive and the Somme Offensive
  20. Battle of Vittorio Veneto, Situation 24 October- 4 November 1918
  21. Second Battle of the Marne, and the Battle of Amiens
  22. Meuse and Argonne Offensives
  23. Western Front, Final Allied Offensive, 25 September - 11 November 1918
  24. Eastern Europe, 1914 and Planned Army Concentration Areas in Central Europe, 1914
  25. Tannenberg Campaign, Situation 23 August 1914
  26. Battle of Tannenberg, Situation Evening of 26 August 1914
  27. Battle of Tannenberg, Situation Evening of 30 August 1914
  28. Operations on the Eastern Front to 20 September 1914
  29. Campaign in Southwest Poland. Situation 1 November 1914
  30. Winter Battle of Masuria
  31. Gorlice-Tarnow Breakthrough and Russian Withdrawal, 1 May - 30 September 1915
  32. First, Second and Third Invasions of Serbia, August-December 1914
  33. Allied Operations in Salonika and Final Invasion of Serbia, 7 October 1915
  34. Eastern Front, March 1916
  35. Brusilov Offensive, 1 May - 20 September 1916
  36. Rumanian Campaign, 27 August - 18 September 1916
  37. Rumanian Campaign, 25 October 1916
  38. Rumanian Campaign, 26 November 1916 - 7 January 1917
  39. Salonikan Front, 1915-16
  40. German Amphibious Operations in the Baltic Islands, 10-20 October 1917
  41. Operations in Eastern Europe, 1918 and Operations in central Europe, 1917
  42. Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Rail System
  43. Anlo- Indian Invasion of Lower Mesopotamia and Operations in 1914
  44. Defense of the Dardanelles Straits, February-March 1915 and Allied Initial Landings in Gallipoli, April 1915
  45. Battle of Jutland, 30-31 May 1916
  46. Lower Mesopotamia, Situation 31 July 1915
  47. First Advance on Baghdad, and the First and Second Battles of Kut
  48. Campaign in Egypt and Palestine
  49. Palestine, the Battle of Gaza and the Capture of Jerusalem
  50. Battle of Megiddo, 19-25 September 1918
  51. Europe, Boundary Realignments Resulting from the War
  52. World in 1919

World War II European Theater Overview

Leadup to the War

Opening German Offensive

Campaign in the West

The Winter War

Campaign in the Balkans

Operation Barbarossa

Soviet Counter-Offensive

North Africa

The World in World War II

Allied Invasion of Italy

Allied Landing in Northern France

Liberation of France

Allied Advance to the Rhine

Battle of the Bulge

Invasion of Germany

These maps are a result of a collaboration between USMA and the U.S. Air Force Academy:

Animations are provided courtesy of the Combat Studies Institute, United States Army. 

WWII Major Operations of the Asian and Pacific Theater  

  1. Pacific and the Far East
  2. Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939  
  3. China, 1941   
  4. Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks   
  5. Major Allied Forces and Positions, December 1941  
  6. Japanese Centrifugal Offensive December 1941  
  7. British Land and Air Dispositions, 7 December 1941 and Japanese Centrifugal Offensive December 1941 - January. 1942   
  8. Luzon P.I. Communications Net, American Dispositions, 8 December 1941  
  9. Luzon, P.I., Centrifugal Offensive, 10 Dec. - 6 May 1942   
  10. Netherlands East Indies, Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941 - April 1942   
  11. Southern Asia, Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, January - May 1942  
  12. Micronesia, Melanesia and New Guinea, Japanese Centrifugal Offensive   
  13. American Carrier Operations, 7 December 1941- 18 April 1942   
  14. Operations of the Japanese First Air Fleet, 7 December 1941 - 12 March 1942  
  15. Battle of the Coral Sea, 6-8 May 1942 and Battle of Midway, 3-6 June 1942   
  16. Status of Allied Forces and Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942  
  17. Guadalcanal Campaign, August-October 1942   
  18. Papa, New Guinea, 1942  
  19. Papa, New Guinea, September-November 1942
  20. CARTWHEEL, The Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations
  21. The Solomons and New Guinea, June 1943-April 1944   
  22. Original Allied Strategic Concept, May 1943 and Situation in Pacific, 1 November 1943
  23. Gilbert Islands, Initial Operations of the 27th Infantry and Assault by 2nd Marine Division, November 1943   
  24. Kwajalein Atoll, January-February 1944
  25. Allied Advances to the Marianas, 22 April - 24 July 1944  
  26. Marianas, June-August 1944   
  27. Allied Advances to the Palaus and Morotai and Air Attacks on the Philippines, July-September 1944
  28. Invasion of Hollandia, 1944  
  29. Invasion of Leyte, October 1944
  30. Sixth Army Operations on Leyte and Sambar, October-December 1944   
  31. Sixth Army Operations, Mindoro and Marinduque Islands, December 1944 - January 1945  
  32. Japanese 14th Area Army Dispositions Prior to 9 January 1945
  33. Invasion of Luzon and Advance to Manila, 9 January-4 February 1945
  34. Final Operations on Luzon
  35. Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area   
  36. China, 1920-50   
  37. Chinese Territory Seized Prior to July 1937 and Major Japanese Drives in 1937   
  38. China, Japanese Advances During 1938 and 1939
  39. Allied Reorganization, 30 March 1942 and Area Under Japanese Control, 6 August 1942   
  40. India-Burma, Allied Area of Communications, 1942-1943
  41. Third Burma Campaign, November 1943 - May 1944 a   
  42. Third Burma Campaign, November 1943 - May 1944 b  
  43. Operation ICHIGO, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December   
  44. Third Burma Campaign, Allied Victory, April-May 1945  
  45. Operation ICHIGO, 1945 and Final Operations in the War   
  46. Summary of Allied Pacific Campaigns and Status of Japanese Forces, 1 February 1945   
  47. Allied Invasion of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, 1945
  48. Okinawa, April 1945   
  49. Okinawa, April-June 1945  
  50. Japanese Homeland Security and Allied Plans for the Invasion of Japan, August 1945   
  51. Bombing of Japan   
  52. Areas Under Allied Japanese Control, 15 August 1945

War of Independence

Campaign in Sinai

Six Day War

Golan Heights Campaign

Campaign in Sinai

The following map is a result of a collaborative project between USMA and U.S. Air Force Academy. 

Eastern

Western

The following map is a result of a collaborative project between USMA and the U.S. Air Force Academy. 

Course-Specific Maps

Ancient Warfare

1: Sennacherib's Campaign

2: Battle of Plataea

3-5: Siege of Syracuse, Phases I-III

6-8: Siege of Syracuse, Phases IV-VI

9-11: Siege of Syracuse, Phases VII-IX

12-13: Siege of Syracuse, Phases X-XI

14: Approach to Issus

15: Battle of the Granicus

16: Roman Expansion in Italy

17: Battle of Cynoscephalae, Phase I

18: Battle of Cynoscephalae, Phase II

19: Battle of Cynoscephalae, Phase III

20: Battle of Cynoscephalae, Phase IV

21: Battle of Cynoscephalae, Phase V

22: Hannibal in Italy: Overview

23: Battle of Cannae

24: Roman Control of Italy

25: Expansion of Rome, 2nd Century B.C.

26: Macedonia and the Aegean World, c. 200 B.C.

27: Jugurthan War: Numidia and North Africa

28: Jugurthan War: The Battle of Muthul River, Phase I

29: Jugurthan War: The Battle of Muthul River, Phase II

30: Jugurthan War: The Battle of Muthul River, Phase III

31: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Campaign against the Helvetii

32: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Campaign against Ariovistus

33: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Campaign against the Belgae: Initial Operations

34: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Campaign against the Belgae: Against the Nervii

35: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Outbreak of the Gallic Revolt

36: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Gallic Revolt through Gergovia and Siege of Bourges

37: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Gergovia

38: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Gergovia: Caesar’s Feint

39: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Gergovia: Caesar’s Attack

40: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Gergovia: Gallic Counterattack

41: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Gergovia: Romans Reform

42: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Gergovia to Alesia

43: Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Siege of Alesia, 52 B.C.

44: Caesar's Civil War: Overview

45: Caesar vs. Pompey: Opening Moves

46: Caesar vs. Pompey: Antony Arrives

47: Caesar vs. Pompey: Caesar Secures Allies and Scipio Arrives

48: Caesar vs. Pompey: Movements During April

49: Caesar vs. Pompey: Operations Around Durazzo

50: Caesar vs. Pompey: Battle of Lesnikia River

51: Caesar vs. Pompey: Movements to Pharsalus

52: Battle of Pharsalus, 48 B.C.: Caesar Creates a Fourth Line

53: Battle of Pharsalus, 48 B.C.: Initial Movements

54: Battle of Pharsalus, 48 B.C.: Pompey’s Breakthrough

55: Battle of Pharsalus, 48 B.C.: Caesar’s Counterattack

Medieval Warfare

56: Italy in 1000

57: Calabria at the time of Robert Guiscard

58: War of 1173-4: First Scottish Invasion

59: War of 1173-4: De Lucy’s Response

60: War of 1173-4: Leicester’s Invasion

61: War of 1173-4: Second Scottish Invasion

62: War of 1173-4: Strike against William’s Siege Force

63: Crown of Aragón and the Conquest of Minorca

64:The Catalan Company

65: Maneuvering prior to the Battle of Poitiers, 13-18 September 1356

66: Battle of Poitiers, 1356: Terrain

67: Battle of Poitiers, 1356: Variou Interpretations

1: Norse Pirates

2: Pirates of the North and Baltic Seas

3: Corsairs at their Height

4: Wako Pirates

5: Spanish Trade in the West Indies

6: Piracy in the East Indies

7: Somali and Houthi Pirates

Additional Maps

The following maps are those created for a purpose other than cadet academic use (i.e., dissertations, publications, staff rides/AIADs) or otherwise do not fit in a category listed above.

The following maps were developed in conjunction with MAJ Alex Humes, focusing on Pre-Revolutionary fortifications and battles:

The following maps were developed in conjunction with MAJ Justine Meberg, focusing on the Seminole Wars, the Mexican-American War and the involvement of women in both conflicts:

The following was developed for a class taught by MAJ Jess Rudo:

The following maps were developed in conjunction with Gregory Barnes on the development of modern warfare: