Images

George Washington crossing the Delaware River on the night of 25 December 1776, to launch a surprise attack on the Hessian troops at the Battle of Trenton. Oil on canvas by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Scalper Scalped - Pawnees and Cheyennes, oil on card mounted on paperboard by George Catlin, 1861/1869. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

On 9 July 1776, American Patriots and Sons of Liberty pull down the statue of King George III of Great Britain in New York City, shortly after George Washington read the United States Declaration of Independence. Two months later, the British...

Lord Stirling leads an attack against the British (in the background) to buy time for other American troops to retreat (as depicted in the foreground) at the Battle of Long Island (27 August 1776), which resulted in a defeat for the Continental...

General Sir William Howe, commander of the British forces during the American Revolutionary War. Mezzotint by Richard Purcell, published by John Morris, London, November 1777. Anne S. K. Brown Military History Collection at Brown University...

George Washington as commander of the Continental Army, 1776. That year, which saw the defeat of Washington's army at the Battle of Long Island and in the subsequent New York Campaign of 1776 was the bleakest year of Washington's military...

The Delaware Regiment of the Continental Army at the Battle of Long Island during the American Revolutionary War. Painting by Domenick D'Andrea, commissioned by the US National Guard Bureau, c. 2004.

A posthumous portrait lithographic print of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

The grave of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague, Netherlands.

An early 20th-century painting by Samuel Hirszenberg of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) illustrating his excomunication by the Jewish community in Amsterdam around 1656 for his radical views.