Price: $175.00
SKU: 23968
PUBLISHER: A Paris ches Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques a le ville de Coutances.
MEDIUM: Engraving,
DATE: 1777-83
EDITION SIZE: Image size 6 3/8 x 4 3/8" (1.6.1 x 11.1 cm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: Engraved by Desrais. An attractive bust profile of General Gates, set in an engraved oval frame with bow on top. <br><br> General Horatio Gates, 1727-1806. He was an English officer who served in America during the French and Indian War, along 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. <br> In 1772 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. In 1775 he was made 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.
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CONDITION: Good condition. Black and white.
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