Images

Death of General Hugh Mercer during the Battle of Princeton on 3 January 1777. Mercer is depicted in the center, being mortally wounded by British bayonets after refusing to surrender; British Captain William Leslie is also mortally wounded...

George Washington inspects the colors captured from the Hessians following the Battle of Trenton (26 December 1776). Reproduction of a painting of Edward Percy Moran, lithograph by Hayes Litho. Co. Buffalo, N.Y., August 1914. Library...

Hessian grenadier from Colonel Johann Rall's regiment during the American Revolutionary War. This uniform is what the Hessians would have worn around the time of the Battle of Trenton (26 December 1776). Watercolor By Charles M. Lefferts...

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), British military officer best known for leading British forces during the American Revolutionary War and for surrendering at the Siege of Yorktown. Portrait by John Singleton Copley...

The Continental Army retreats from Long Island during the night of 29-30 August 1776, in the aftermath of the Battle of Long Island, chromolithograph by The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio, 1899. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Worship of Bodhi Tree, sandstone, Bharhut, c. 2nd century BCE. Indian Buddhist Art exhibition, Indian Museum, Kolkata.

Worship at a stupa, sandstone fence-rail from the Bharhut Stupa, Bharhut, Madhya Pradesh, India, early 2nd century BCE. Exhibit in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA.

Buddha sculpture, Stupa 1, Sanchi, 4th-5th centuries CE. This is one of four such images placed at each of the four gateways of the complex.

James McLaughlin (l. 1842-1923), US Indian Inspector of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, best known for ordering the arrest of the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull in December 1890 and requesting the troops that participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre...

Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson, l. c. 1856-1932), Paiute Shaman and visionary who preached the Ghost Dance beginning in 1889.