Картины художника HUGH CHARLES MCBARRON JR. American, 1902-1992 Серия - "The American Soldier"(ч.1.XVIII век) http://i015.radikal.ru/0711/5f/2f35ccae10aa.jpg - When the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia on 10 May 1775 the battles of Concord, Lexington, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point were history... http://i019.radikal.ru/0711/38/b2b37859ad23.jpg - The return of Colonel Henry Knox, Chief of Artillery, to Boston with cannon from Fort Ticonderoga and their subsequent placement on Dorchester Heights made the British position in the city untenable. British General Sir William Howe held a council of war and decided to evacuate Boston. General George Washington agreed not to interfere, and the British sailed on 17 March 1776... http://i024.radikal.ru/0711/4d/b9c520930640.jpg - ...A direct hit was scored on 8 May 1780, killing approximately one hundred men and destroying one of the redoubts. Although the follow-up assault ground to a halt amidst the ruins, the presence of Spanish marksmen inside the fort made the serving of the British guns impossible and Campbell surrendered. This campaign relieved pressure on the southern states. http://i044.radikal.ru/0711/ba/763a52134c87.jpg - ...Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut in blue faced with white, and a drummer in the reversed colors (behind the espontoon). Then come musicians in red faced with blue, the reversed colors of the units from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. At the far right are two field officers from these same states in blue coats faced with red, with epaulettes on both shoulders; the one on horseback wears a gorget,an officer's insignia worn in most European armies of the period.(1781) http://i004.radikal.ru/0711/45/64164f7d8244.jpg - ...In January 1781 he initiated a devastating raid with sixteen hundred men up the James River under the traitorous Benedict Arnold. To counter or capture Arnold, Washington sent Lafayette to Virginia with twelve hundred Continentals to be augmented by Virginia militia... http://i033.radikal.ru/0711/9f/816c0e59f06b.jpg - ...During that time the troops under General Greene, usually ill fed and clad, engaged in a series of minor actions and skirmishes and strenuous marches and countermarches. Under such leaders as Greene, Marion, Sumter, Sumner, and Lee, they forced the British to retire to Savannah and Charleston. In face of this constant American pressure the British gave up Savannah in July 1782 and evacuated Charleston in December of the same year... http://i029.radikal.ru/0711/d1/756e2ee7030b.jpg - The whole U.S. Army in the fall of 1784 was one infantry regiment; consisting of eight infantry and two artillery companies... http://i042.radikal.ru/0711/0f/f2136735a1cf.jpg - The Army that on 20 August 1794 at the Battle of Fallen Timbers avenged the defeats suffered at the hands of the Indians in 1790 and 1791 was the creation of Major General Anthony Wayne. - продолжение следует
- серия "The American Soldier", ч.2. - XIX век(избранное) http://i043.radikal.ru/0711/2c/8ed171514a97.jpg - ...Here in October 1819, Major Long, the Indian Agent Major O'Fallon, and other officers held council with the Otoes, Missouris, Iowas, and Pawnees. фото 1. http://i043.radikal.ru/0711/7a/7e55e90541fa.jpg - ...1839 Enlisted men in Florida throughout the conflict were provided with the Army undress or fatigue uniform. The officers, who bought their own clothing, wore whatever they liked. фото 2. http://i034.radikal.ru/0711/14/b546e0921153.jpg - ...1863 The Ordnance Corps insignia on the front of his forage cap is a gold embroidered shell and flame on a black velvet background, and on the gilt, convex buttons on the frock coat are crossed cannon and a bombshell, with a circular scroll over and across the cannon, containing the words Ordnance Corps. фото 3. http://i050.radikal.ru/0711/b4/b72eb15d789f.jpg - ...Typical of this era were those worn on duty in New Mexico about 1880. фото 4. http://i022.radikal.ru/0711/cd/15104ef62166.jpg - ...On 20 August 1886 Captain Moses Harris, Commanding Officer, Troop M, 1st Cavalry, relieved the civilian superintendent. Although military control was to be of short duration, troops remained for 32 years. фото 5.
