Artillery Of Independence, Siege Of Yorktown, Virginia, October 9, 1781 - Artist Proof

Artillery Of Independence, Siege Of Yorktown, Virginia, October 9, 1781 - Artist ProofArtist Proof (available) 50 Signed Numbered Overall: 31. 25" x 24. 25" Image: 27" x 20" $250. 00 George Washington Firing the First American Artillery Round at Yorktown The annus mirabilis, the year of miracles, was about to reach its grand finale when his aides informed George Washington in the early afternoon of 9 October 1781, that the time had come to open the American artillery on Lord Cornwallis. On 14 September, four weeks after he had left

and then retreated in panic

The subject is 78 year old Samuel Whittemore

even the embossed devices on the various grenadier caps can be easily discerned

Musketeer Hessian Regiment Von Bose

that British Regulars were on the march to Concord

" Don Troiani

Bennington Militia

Jane traveled to join her fiance at the fort

a “motley rabble of saucy boys

and though they were still waiting for the siege artillery to be debarked - most of the American gun carriages sat marooned on the sloop Nancy on a sandbank in the James River – set out for Yorktown on 28 September

500 French troops had assembled in Williamsburg by 26 September

Typical Federal Infantryman In Campaign Dress - American Civil War