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American Revolution
American Fleet Defeated The defeat of the American fleet under Benedict Arnold, off Crown Point in Lake Champlain, New York, during the Revolutionary War, 1776. Watercolour.
ID #23215
British Squadron A British squadron on Lake Champlain, later 18th century.
ID #10180
Cornwallis Surrenders The surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1781, when Britain's main army in Virginia was cut off and surrounded, spelled the effective end of the Revolutionary War.
ID #10187
1783 Loyalist Fleet Following the American Revolutionary War, thousands of Loyalists came in convoys out of New York to Atlantic Canada.
ID #20680
British Departure An artist's reconstruction of a final boatload of British troops leaving New York, 1783.
ID #10191
Death of Montgomery A romanticized version of the unsuccessful 1775-1776 winter assault on Quebec City by American forces under General Richard Montgomery, who died at the approaches to Lower Town.
ID #20677
Quebec City A view of Quebec city and its ramparts, including a few burned-out houses in the foreground, after the American attack in 1775.
ID #10183
Fallen Timbers A plan of the battle of Fallen Timbers, 1794, showing the battle in which the Americans decisively defeated the Indians. Print published in B.J. Lossing's The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812.
ID #20015
Battle of Queenston Heights Plan of the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812.
ID #21788
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