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Picturing Washington's Army: Officers’ Tents
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Read MorePicturing Washington's Army: Verplanck’s Point | Washington’s Tent
Take a closer look at General Washington’s tent perched on a hill overlooking the encampment. Nearby, other tents made up the headquarters of the Continental Army. Charles-Louis-Victor, Prince de Broglie, a colonel in the Saintonge Regiment of the French Army, wrote about seeing Washington’s tent at Verplanck’s Point: “I noticed on a little hill which overlooked the camp...the quarters of General Washington.”
Image: Museum of the American Revolution, Gift of the Landenberger Family Foundation
Picturing Washington's Army: Artillery Park
Read MorePicturing Washington's Army: West Point | Hudson Highlands
Take a closer look at the outlying defenses on the rocky hills and cliffs south of West Point. Notice the Hudson River in the foreground and the Continental Army’s hilltop fortifications.
Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Picturing Washington's Army: West Point | Continental Army
Take a closer look at a group of soldiers in the foreground of the painting. Also notice the lines of tents in the distance with the Hudson Highlands in the background.
Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.