Top Ten News Stories of 1775

List of Illustrations [abbreviated].

“A mostly accurate hand-colored map depicting the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston,” by J. DeCosta.

“Assembly Room of Independence Hall,” [taken on 18 September 2013] N.P. Gallery. Independence National Historical Park.

“Capture of Fort Ticonderoga,” Scan by NYPL.

“Guy Carleton,” Unknown artist [ca. 1760].

Carpenter’s Hall. NYPL

Catherine II in front of a mirror by V.Eriksen. (1779)

“Continental Army soldiers 1782,” by H. Charles McBarron, Jr.

“The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775,” by John Trumbull [1786].

“The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill,” by John Trumbull, 1786.

“Detail of a color mezzolint of American Revolutionary War General Benedict Arnold,” by Thomas Hart [20 March 1776].

An engraving of George Washington, circa 1800s, [artist unknown].

Carpenters’ Hall, built 1770-1774, by the Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia.[2009] by David8.

“Flight of Lord Dunmore,” [1907].

“Patrick Henry,” by George Bagby/Matthews, after Thomas Sully, [ca. 1891].

“Independence Hall. Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.” NP.S.

“Infantry; Continental Army, 1779-1783,” by Henry Alexander Ogden [ca. 1897].

“Lakes to Locks Passage-A View Down onto Fort Ticonderoga from Mt. Defiance,” [Unknown author, 1991].

“Charles Lee, Esq’r-Americaner general-major.” Illus. in Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa/ Christoph Heinrich Korn. Number, G.N. Raspe, 1776-84 p. 92. [Copy 2].

“Life of George Washington-The farmer,” by Junius Brutus Stearns. [1853] [LOC].

“Likeness of American revolutionary soldier Ethan Allen,” by Jacques Reich [1900].

“Map showing the routes taken by the Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery expedition into Quebec as part of the American Invasion of Canada (1775),” USACMH.

“Richard Montgomery Colored Engraving.jpg.” Author: E. Mackenzie, Charles Wilson Peale [ca. 1839].

“John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore,” by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1765.

Nautical chart of Salem Harbour, Massachusetts, with Marblehead & Beverly Harbour [1867]

Officer-52nd Regiment of Foot Grenadier Company British Army, by Charles M. Lefferts [ca. 1910].

“Patrick Henry delivers Give Me Liberty Speech,” by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris [1895].

“Major John Pitcairn,” [18th century, artist not identified].

A portrait of General Alexander Leslie by painter Thomas Gainsborough [undated].

Portrait of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775).

“Portrait of George Washington,” by Gilbert Stuart [1795].

Portrait of George Washington by Luis Cadena [1877].

Portraits of George Washington by Joseph Wright (1790),

“Quebec in 1775,” Scan by NYPL.

Repulse of Leslie at the Old North Bridge by Fredrick A. Bridgman [1901].

“St. John’s Church, Richmond, VA.” by Mathew Benjamin Brady. [ca. 1860-1865].

“Schiţa dispunerii forţelor în bătălia de la Quebec,” by Edwin Martin Stone [1867].

“Unveiling the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, 1886,” by Edward Moran [1896].

“The U.S. Navy battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55) at sea of New York City, 3 June 1946 [unknown artist].

“George Washington,” by John Trumbull [1780].

George Washington Design for an Engraving, by Alonzo Chappel [after Gilbert Stuart].

“George Washington, General and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army,” by James Peale (after Charles Wilson Peale).

“Washington,” by William Holt [engraver] after John Faed [artist] [1880].

“David Wooster, Esqr. Commander in Chief of the Provincial Army against Quebec.” [unknown artist] [between ca. 1760 and ca. 1900].

“Portrait of Joseph Warren,” by John Singleton Copley [ca 1765].

“The Battle of Lexington.” Artist: William Barnes Wollen [1910].

“Memorial to Minute Men on Village Green and House of Jonathan Harrington, Lexington, Mass.,” by Tichnor Brothers [ca. 1930-1945].

“The battle of Lexington, April 19th. 1775,” by Amos Doolittle [1775].

“A View of the South Part of Lexington,” by Amos Doolittle [1775].

“The Shot Heard ‘Round the World by Domenick D’Andrea,” by Amos Doolittle [1775].

“Sir Henry Clinton, British Commander in Chief during the American Revolution,” by Andrea Soldi [between 1762 and 1765].

“An illustrated map of the battle ground of Battle of Bunker Hill on Charlestown peninsula, encompassing Bunker and Breed’s Hills,” by George E. Ellis [1875]. U.S. Army images.

“Annotated version of a 1775 engraving by Paul Revere depicting the Battle of Bunker Hill, [1775]. Private collection.

“Battle of Bunker Hill,” by Edward Percy Moran [1909].

“Battle of Bunker Hill,” by Howard Pyle [1897].

Eighteenth-century illustration of two Hessian soldiers [unknown author].

“The midnight march-the American troops, under Colonel William Prescott, taking possession of Breed’s Hill on the night of June 16th, 1775,."

All images are in the public domain.