History of the United States : from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902. 1

Coat of Arms of Arthur Middleton

Drawn in proper heraldic colors by Mr. Henry Strippel, from copy in
Vermont's America Heraldica.

Portrait of Arthur Middleton and Family

Reproduced in colors from original painting by Benjamin West, by cour-
teous permission of present owner, Mr. Henry Middleton Fisher.

Banastre Tarleton (Portrait and Autograph)

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Portrait from a mezzotint by Reynolds in the New York Public Library
(Emmet Collection); autograph from the New York Public Library
(Emmet Collection).

Proclamation, One of Many, Issued by Clinton and
Arbuthnot

From printed copy in the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection).

Francis Marion (Portrait and Autograph)

Portrait from a painting by H. N. Hyneman of New York. This portrait was not painted from life but the artist used all the available material in shape of descriptions, engravings drawn from memory and the like, and is the most satisfactory reproduction of General Marion to be procured. A Caricature of Charles Lee.

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Photographed from illustration in Girdlestone's Facts tending to prove that
General Lee was the author of Junius' Letters, London, 1813. From
the New York Public Library.

Map of the Battle of Camden

Compiled by Lieutenant Joseph A. Baer, U. S. Army, West Point, N. Y.

Map of the Battle of King's Mountain .

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Compiled by Lieutenant Joseph A. Baer, U. S. Army, West Point, N. Y. Portion of the Last Page of Letter from Baron

Steuben to Governor Jonathan Trumbull

Dated September 19, 1779.
Connecticut Historical Society.

This document is in the collection of the

British Cartoon, "The Political Raree-show"

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between 234 and 235

Shows the Saratoga

Published in the Westminster Magazine, June, 1779.
surrender among the twelve incidents caricatured. From copy in collec-
tion of the New York Historical Society.

Map of Tryon's Raid into Connecticut in 1779

Compiled by Lieutenant Joseph A. Baer, U. S. Army, West Point, N. Y.

Medal Awarded to Anthony Wayne for the Capture

of Stony Point

From a copy.

George Washington's Autograph Letter to Doctor
Cochran

. between 236 and 237

Dated at West Point, August 16, 1779. Interesting letter regarding
dinner invitation with apologies to the guests as to the nature of the
fare they may expect, stating that his cook "has had the surprising
luck to discover that apples will make pyes." Further states that they

must submit to partake of it on plates—once tin but now iron-not
become so by the labor of scouring." From collection of the New York
Historical Society.

Map of the Penobscot Expedition

Compiled by Lieutenant Joseph A. Baer, U. S. Army, West Point, N. Y.

Camp Kettle of General Anthony Wayne, Inherited
from Susan Hubberd, Grandmother of his
Wife

From collection of the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
View of Paulus Hook.

Facsimile of a water color painted by a British officer during the Revolu-
tion. From a print in the private collection of Doctor Thomas Addis
Emmet.

Autograph of the Reverend James Caldwell

From the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection).

Flag of the Second Rhode Island Regiment

From original at State House, Providence, R. I. Information regarding
this and other flags was very courteously supplied by Mr. Gherardi Davis,
author of Regimental Colors in the War of the Revolution, in which book a
beautiful colored reproduction of this flag appears as frontispiece.

Map of the Battle of Springfield, New Jersey

Compiled by Lieutenant Joseph A. Baer, U. S. Army, West Point, N. Y.

Webb's Third Connecticut Regiment Flag used
during the Revolutionary War

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Now owned by the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, by
whose courteous permission it is reproduced in colors in facsimile of its
present appearance.

Portrait of the Marquis de Chastellux

From a photograph of original painting supplied by M. Em. Terquem,
Paris.

Advance of British Army from Staten Island.

Compiled by Lieutenant Joseph A. Baer, U. S. Army, West Point, N. Y.

Portrait of Polly Lawton

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Reproduced in colors from miniature by Peale in 1790, by courteous per-
mission of the present owner, Mr. George P. Lawton.

From a private plate owned by Doctor Thomas Addis Emmet.

"A View of West Point on Hudsons River,"

By Major L'Enfant, Engineer. From facsimile in Boynton's History of
West Point.

House of Beverly Robinson

From a photograph made about 1885. House is no longer standing.

Broadside by Benedict Arnold

duct.

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• 246

. between 246 and 247

Addressed to the inhabitants of America, containing vindication of his con-
This is the only known copy of this publication appearing as a
broadside, though the address was published in certain papers.

Villefranche's Plan of West Point.

Portrait of Major André

From the original painting by Copley, in the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington. Reproduced by special permission of the owner, Mr. C. F.
Gunther.

Major André's Pocket-book.

In collection of the Connecticut Historical Society.

Arnold's Pass to Major André

From original document in the New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.

Medal Awarded by Congress to Williams, Paulding, and Van Wart for the Capture of André .

Reproduced from original in the New York Historical Society.

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Paper found in Major André's Possession when he was Captured between 250 and 251

Dated September 13, 1780. Contains an estimate of the forces garrisoning
West Point.
From original copy in the New York State Library.

Map to Illustrate Arnold's Treason and André's

Commission of Benjamin Tallmadge between 252 and 253

Signed by John Hancock, December 14, 1776. From original in col-
lection of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New
York at Fraunces Tavern.

Flag of Tallmadge's Dragoons

between 252 and 253

From original in possession of Mrs. J. H. Knox, Troy, New York, by
courteous permission.

Portraits of the Tallmadge Family between 252 and 253

Painted by Ralph Earle, 1790.

Portrait of Major André

Reproduced by courteous permission of

the present owner, Mrs. Mary F. Seymour.

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From an engraving in Political Magazine, March, 1781.

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André's Own Sketch of Himself .

Original in the collection of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Mrs. Benedict Arnold (Peggy Shippen) and Child . 254

Reduced facsimile of portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, in collection of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Arnold's Proclamation after his Treason

between 254 and 255

To the officers and soldiers of the continental army, urging them to be
no longer the tools and dupes of congress. The information regarding this
broadside was obtained in a note from Mr. Worthington C. Ford, Chief
of Division of Manuscripts, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.,
dated May 2, 1908, reading as follows: "Can you not find room for the
reproduction of Benedict Arnold's proclamation after his treason? The
only copy I have ever seen turned up in some miscellaneous Jefferson
papers, and while one of the lower corners is a little torn, yet the contents
are of such a nature as to make them of particular personal value."

Washington's Circular Letter to Nathanael Greene

between 254 and 255

Detailing the critical condition of the army and urging the abandonment
From the original in the office of the Rhode

of short time enlistments.

Facsimile of Jones's Commission as Captain
The "Stars and Stripes" of the "Bon Homme
Richard"

Reproduced from a photograph colored in close facsimile of the present
appearance of the flag. The flag is now deposited in the National Museum
at Washington. This is not the flag flown during the action with the
"Serapis,
as that flag was sent down with the "Bon Homme Richard "'
when she sank, in honor of her gallant dead.

Broadside Soliciting Enlistment Under John Paul
Jones

From original at the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

Map of the Movements of the "Ranger"

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Compiled by Mrs. Annie H. Eastman, assistant to the Librarian of the
Naval War Records Library, Washington, D. C.

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Portrait by Peale at Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Autograph from
the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection).

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Autograph of Peter Landais.

From the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection). Portrait of Sir Richard Pearson

From mezzotint in the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection). Cruises of John Paul Jones in British Waters

between 264 and 265

Compiled by Mrs. Annie H. Eastman, assistant to the Librarian of the
Naval War Records Library, Washington, D. C., by careful investigation
of original sources and material, including parts of the log of the "Bon
Homme Richard."

Position of the Fleets before the Engagement of
September 23, 1779

Compiled by Mrs. Annie H. Eastman, assistant to the Librarian of the
Naval War Records Library, Washington, D. C.

The Engagement, September 23, 1779.

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Compiled by Mrs. Annie H. Eastman, assistant to the Librarian of the
Naval War Records Library, Washington, D. C.

Course of the "Bon Homme Richard,"

September

10 to September 23, 1779

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Compiled by Mrs. Annie H. Eastman, assistant to the Librarian of the
Naval War Records Library, Washington, D. C.

"The memorable Engagement of Capt. Pearson of the Serapis, with Paul Jones of the Bon Homme Richard & his Squadron, Sep. 23, 1779".

Reproduced from copper-plate engraving by John Boydell, published in 1780.

A Page from the Log of the "Bon Homme
Richard"

Supplied by Mrs. Annie H. Eastman, assistant to the Librarian of the
Naval War Records Library, Washington, D. C.

Brass Candlestick Saved from the Sinking Wreck
of the "Bon Homme Richard" after her
Engagement with the "Serapis

In collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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Sword Presented to John Paul Jones by Louis XVI. 272 From data and illustration supplied by Mr. Charles Henry Hart. Sword now in possession of Colonel Richard Dale.

Medal Awarded to Jones by Congress

Portrait of Vergennes

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From a restrike of the original in possession of Mr. Charles William Burrows.

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From painting in the Galerie de Versailles, near Paris.

Portrait of Admiral Rodney .

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From the National Portrait Gallery, London. Original by Sir Joshua
Reynolds.

Portrait of Catherine II. of Russia

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From miniature in Williamson's History of Portrait Miniatures in the New
York Public Library. Copy was made from the Czar of Russia's Collection.

Map to Illustrate Attitude of European Nations

Toward the American Revolution.

Prepared by David Maydole Matteson, A. M.

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General Nathanael Greene (Portrait and Autograph) 282

Portrait from original painting by Peale by courteous permission of the
owner, Mrs. Katherine Porter Greene. Autograph from original letter in
the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection).

General Map to Illustrate the Southern Campaign

of 1781

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Compiled by Lieutenant Joseph A. Baer, U. S. Army, West Point, N. Y.

Portrait of Daniel Morgan

Detail Map to Accompany General Map Illustrating Southern Campaign of 1781

Autograph of Andrew Pickens

From the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection).