Le General Gates. : qui a environne et fait Prisonier le General Lieutenant Bourgogne avec toute son Armee en Amerique.

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• PUBLISHER: Se vend a Londres chez Thom., Hart.

• MEDIUM: Mezzotint,

  DATE: circa 1780.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 7 3/4 x 6 1/8" (19.7 x 15.6 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Pent parThomlinson a Nouvelle York.<BR><BR> General Horatio Gates, 1727-1806. English officer, served in America during the French and Indian War with fellow officers George Washington, Charles Lee and Thomas Gage. He was wounded at Fort Duquesne in 1755 and retired from the army in 1765. In 1772 Horatio Gates moved with his family to Virginia. Gates accepted appointment as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Virginia militia, and when the Revolution broke out, he took the American side. <br><br> In 1775 he was made an Adjutant General of the Army, with the rank of Brigadier General. He served in the Saratoga campaign and was in command at the Battle of Camden in South Carolina. In this print Gates has his hand on a stack of paper with the caption, “Arti of Convention between Gen. Gates and Gen. Burgogne.” <br><br>

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• CONDITION: Good condition, a strong impression, unusually wide margins.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits , Revolutionary War Figures