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The Death Of General Montgomery In The Attack Of Quebec Decr. 1775 1798 McCord Museum Montreal, QC | Trumbull, John | Unrated | ||
Surrender Of Cornwallis At Yorktown (2) 1797 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Trumbull, John | Unrated | ||
Henry Knox ca. 1860 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Brumidi, Constantino | Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, and also served as the first United States Secretary of War.
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, he owned and operated a bookstore there, cultivating an interest in military history and joining a local artillery... | Unrated | |
Battle Of Bunker Hill ca. 1897 Delaware Art Museum Wilmington, DE | Pyle, Howard | Unrated | ||
Congress Voting The Declaration Of Independence engraving Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Pine, Robert Edge | Print shows men gathered in the Assembly Room in the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall), Philadelphia. Completed figures include John Adams, Roger Sherman, James Wilson and Thomas Jefferson, handing a document to John Hancock, president of the Congress. Seated in the front from left to right are Samuel Adams, Robert Morris,... | Unrated | |
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 ca. 1921 Virginia Historical Society Richmond, VA | Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome |
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams had put forth a resolution earlier in the year, making a... | Unrated | |
Major General Nathanael Greene 1778 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Peale, Charles Willson |
Nathanael Greene (August 7 [O.S. July 27] 1742 – June 19, 1786, frequently misspelled Nathaniel) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable... | Unrated | |
Washington Rallying the Troops At Monmouth 1851-1854 Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA | Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb | Unrated | ||
Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York 1822 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Trumbull, John | The scene of the surrender of the British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, on October 17, 1777, was a turning point in the American Revolutionary War that prevented the British from dividing New England from the rest of the colonies. The central figure is the American General Horatio Gates, who refused to take the sword offered by General Burgoyne,... | Unrated | |
Charles Cornwallis, First Marquis of Cornwallis ca. 1792 Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London, UK | Copley, John Singleton | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and the United Kingdom he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in... | Unrated |
- American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War in the United... Read more