Gen Marion in His Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner 1840 Indy_Colts_Wall_Art George Dewey 1899 — the

George Dewey 1899 — the Hero of Manila Bay rendered the year after his squadron's guns silenced the Spanish fleet

A late-life portrait of the Boston physician-poet in his eighty-fifth year

fixing the moment a Carolina aristocrat fell beneath his regiment's blue standard

A campaign portrait of the Pennsylvania doughface on the eve of his victory over Frémont and Fillmore

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Gen Marion in His Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner 1840 Indy_Colts_Wall_Art George Dewey 1899 — theGen Marion in His Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner, 1840. A documentary engraving of the Swamp Fox at his rough Carolina table, offering sweet potatoes and cold water to a redcoat envoy the kind of partisan legend the young republic loved to retell, half tactics, half parable. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical