Revolutionary War 250

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Posts from 1776! The American Revolution and War of Independence and the world in which they happened, 250 years ago.

Cover of Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum
Scarborough Beach in the eighteenth century
Mercy Otis Warren, painted by John Singleton Copley
James Otis, Jr., painted in 1755 by Joseph Blackburn
John Adams in 1793
Cover of Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth by Holger Hoock
A British guard watches over American prisoners aboard the prison ship Jersey
Sir Basil Keith, painted by Nathaniel Dance Holland
Action at Tarry-Town, 4 August 1776, painted (and misdated) in 1777 by Dominic Serres
Samuel Curwen
John Hancock, painted by John Singleton Copley
Benjamin Rush
William Hooper
Roger Sherman, painted in 1775 by Ralph Earl
George Washington, painted in 1776 by Charles Willson Peale
George Washington, painted in 1776 by Charles Willson Peale
Manuel de Amat y Junyent, painted in 1773 by Pedro Díaz
Thomas Hutchinson, painted by Edward Truman
An eighteenth-century diagram of the mechanics of a solar and lunar eclipse
John Witherspoon, painted by Charles Willson Peale
Thomas Lynch
Benjamin Franklin, painted by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis
Father Escalante Discovers Utah Valley, painted by E. Keith Eddington
The ruins of Crown Point in the early twentieth century
Philip Schuyler
The ruins of Crown Point in 1857
Horatio Gates, painted by James Peale
Joseph Hewes
Nathanael Greene
Cover of Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum
Arthur St. Clair
Samuel Adams, painted by John Singleton Copley
John Adams in 1793
A 1776 representation of Charles Lee
Samuel Curwen
Nathanael Greene
George Washington, painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1776
Sir Guy Carleton
A rifleman wearing a hunting shirt and long breeches
Benjamin Rush
The Passage of the Hudson River, a 1777 painting by Dominic Serres
Philip Vickers Fithian
Robert Morris
John Rowe
Benjamin Franklin, painted by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis
Benjamin Rush
Patrick Tonyn
Hugh Mercer
Cover of Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose
A representation of Robert Rogers
Abigail Adams
The read of the Declaration of Independence from Boston town hall
Samuel Curwen
Stonehenge, painted in 1730
Horace Walpole
John Alsop
Washington stood over a mortally wounded Edward Braddock at the Battle of the Monongahela
Admiral Byng being executed by firing squad in 1757 on the quarterdeck of a man-of-war
George Washington, painted in 1776 by Charles Willson Peale
George Washington, painted in 1776 by Charles Willson Peale