Plan of Charles Town bar and harbor — From an actual survey. With the attack of Fort Sullivan, on the 28th of June 1776, by His Majesty's squadron commanded by Sir Peter Parker Photo Credit: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62205321
Plan of Charles Town bar and harbor
From an actual survey. With the attack of Fort Sullivan, on the 28th of June 1776, by His Majesty's squadron commanded by Sir Peter Parker
Battle of Sullivan's Island — Parker's fleet (in the background) is shown attacking the American fortifications Photo Credit: By John Blake White (1781 - 1859) - U.S Senate Art Collection, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9827720
Battle of Sullivan's Island
Parker's fleet (in the background) is shown attacking the American fortifications
William Moultrie — Photo Credit: By Charles Wilson Peale - National Portrait Gallery, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47766250
Sir Peter Parker — Photo Credit: By Lemuel Francis Abbott - National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9827674
Treasonous letter from Benedict Arnold — Image of a coded letter: Peggy Shippen Arnold's handwriting is interspersed with coded writing in Benedict Arnold's hand; Arnold's writing would have been in invisible ink Photo Credit: By Benedict Arnold; Peggy Shippen Arnold - From the digital collections of the New York Public Library.- Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5747344
Treasonous letter from Benedict Arnold
Image of a coded letter: Peggy Shippen Arnold's handwriting is interspersed with coded writing in Benedict Arnold's hand; Arnold's writing would have been in invisible ink
Armand Tuffin de La Rouërie — Photo Credit: By Charles Willson Peale - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4169911
Lord Rawdon — cropped - Work painted while Rawdon-Hastings was Governor-General of India. He held this post until 1823. Photo Credit: By Joshua Reynolds - Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5335740
Lord Rawdon
cropped - Work painted while Rawdon-Hastings was Governor-General of India. He held this post until 1823.
An engraving showing the wounded Baron de Kalb — De Kalb's horse was shot from under him, causing him to tumble to the ground. Before he could get up, he was shot three times and bayonetted repeatedly by British soldiers. His friend and aide, the Chevalier du Buysson, was seriously wounded blocking additional blows with his own body. Photo Credit: By Shelton, W. H. (William Henry), 1840-1932?, artist.Clement, E., engraver - http://digital.nypl.org., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40923111
An engraving showing the wounded Baron de Kalb
De Kalb's horse was shot from under him, causing him to tumble to the ground. Before he could get up, he was shot three times and bayonetted repeatedly by British soldiers. His friend and aide, the Chevalier du Buysson, was seriously wounded blocking additional blows with his own body.