Thursday, 11 February 2016

Landing of the French forces

Comte de Rochambeau, Daniel Berger, 1784. LC Prints and Photographs Division.
This print by the German engraver Daniel Berger, published in 1784, depicts the July 1780 landing of French troops in Rhode Island. It is a striking image of French military might in the service of American independence.

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