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[Washington firing first gun at Yorktown] – Historic Print

[Washington firing first gun at Yorktown] — historic print
[Washington firing first gun at Yorktown]. Historic print from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Here Washington is shown firing the first gun of the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, a moment traditionally dated to early October 1781. Franco-American forces under Washington and the French general Rochambeau had trapped Lord Cornwallis's British army on the peninsula, and the bombardment that followed wore down the garrison until Cornwallis surrendered on October 19. Because the print dates from about 1911, it shows how early twentieth-century illustrators pictured the Revolution, with a heroic commander placed at the center of the action.

Medium1 print.
Notesc1911.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,056 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122185

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