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This commemorative British-made plate for the American market features an image of the Marquis de Lafayette at the center based upon a portrait by French painter Antoine Maurin.

These wooden pins, or stakes, were driven into the ground to hold ropes that kept George Washington’s marquee tents upright.

This stone, possibly a sharpening stone, is carved with the name “Charles Quander” and “Mt. Vernon 1777 Va.”

This linen tent fragment was separated from one of General George Washington’s tents in the 1800s.

This powder horn, engraved with a walled city, flags, and a crown symbol, commemorates the July 7, 1763, British evacuation of Havana on the island of Cuba, marking the end of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763).

This money scale owned by Pennsylvanian James Boone was used to compare weights and values of the coins from many different nations circulating throughout the colonies.

Cartridge boxes like this were a common way for most American soldiers carry their ammunition and was worn over the shoulder or around the waist.

The chain shot, bar shot, and cannonball are examples of projectiles shot from cannons by the Continental Navy and British Royal Navy during Revolutionary War battles at sea.

This document from May 1780 certified that 17-year-old David Clark was old enough to enlist in the Continental Army.

Deborah Sampson worked with editor Herman Mann to write this biography the documented her life and wartime story or dressing in men's clothes to serve in the army.