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Washington at Dorchester Heights Oil Boston Public Library Boston, MA | Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb | Unrated | ||
Washington Reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland, Maryland after 1795 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Kemmelmeyer, Frederick | GA | ||
Washington Reviewing the Western Army, at Fort Cumberland, Maryland after 1795 Anonymous Collection (2) Unknown | Kemmelmeyer, Frederick | GA | ||
Battle of Quebec 1916 | Jefferys, Charles William | Unrated | ||
Washington at the Delaware c. 1849 Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, VA | Hicks, Edward | GA | ||
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 | |
Colonel John Montresor c. 1771 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | Copley, John Singleton | Captain John Montresor (22 April 1736 – 26 June 1799) was a British military engineer in North America.
Revolutionary-Era America
Stationed at Fort George (the former site of Fort William Henry) in 1765, he witnessed rioting in Albany and New York City in response to the Stamp Act, and in the same year was promoted to captain lieutenant, and... | Unrated | |
Der Tod Des Major Peirsons (The Death Of Major Peirson) 1782-1784 Tate Gallery London, UK | Copley, John Singleton | France invaded Jersey on 5 January 1781. The governor surrendered the island after the fall of its capital, St Helier. A twenty-four-year-old garrison commander, Major Peirson, rejected the surrender and led a successful counter-attack. Peirson was in fact killed shortly before the battle, but Copley shows him dying at the moment of British victory,... | Unrated | |
The Siege And Relief Of Gibraltar, 13 September 1782 circa 1783 Tate Gallery London, UK | Copley, John Singleton | Unrated | ||
Thomas Gage circa 1768-1769 Yale Center for British Art New Haven, CT | Copley, John Singleton | Thomas Gage (1719 or 1720 – 2 April 1787) was a British general, best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as military commander in the early days of the American Revolution.
Born to an aristocratic family in England, he entered military service, seeing action in the French and Indian War, where he served... | 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