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The Death Of General Montgomery In The Attack Of Quebec Decr. 1775

1798
Oil
67.8 x 100 cm

McCord Museum

Montreal, QC

Trumbull, John Unrated
Surrender Of Cornwallis At Yorktown (2)

1797
oil on canvas
35.2 x 55.3 cm (13.9 x 21.8 in)

U.S. Capitol Art Collection

Washington, D.C.

Trumbull, John Unrated
Henry Knox

ca. 1860
Oil
Oval: 32 x 23 in.

U.S. Capitol Art Collection

Washington, D.C.

Brumidi, Constantinonotes
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
Oil
23 1/4 x 35 1/4 in.

Delaware Art Museum

Wilmington, DE

Pyle, Howard Unrated
Congress Voting The Declaration Of Independence

engraving
no dimensions avaliable

Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

Pine, Robert Edgenotes
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
oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.

Virginia Historical Society

Richmond, VA

Ferris, Jean Leon Geromenotes
  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
Watercolor on ivory
1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (4.5 x 3.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Peale, Charles Willsonnotes
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
Oil on canvas
156 x 261 in. (396.2 x 662.9 cm)

Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb Unrated
Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York

1822
Oil on canvas
365.76 cm by 548.64 cm (144.00 in by 216.00 in)

U.S. Capitol Art Collection

Washington, D.C.

Trumbull, Johnnotes
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
Oil
57 x 45 in. (cm. 144.8 x 114.3)

Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery

London, UK

Copley, John Singletonnotes
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
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