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View this portrait of Thomas McDonogh, who served as private secretary to the last royal governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth.

This portrait depicts Lieutenant John Ross of the 34th Regiment after his first American tour of duty as a member of the British Army.

View this portrait of French officer Joachim du Perron, Comte de Revel, who served in naval combats during the Revolutionary War.

This original copy of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, published in 1773, was written by Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American woman poet.

This detailed battle plan shows British, Hessian, and American troop positions and movements during the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777.

This decoratively engraved powder horn includes a view of Philadelphia’s busy waterfront on the eve of the American Revolution.

German-American Brigadier General Muhlenberg (1746-1807) carried these English holster pistols during the American Revolution.

The Museum owns five English law books that are listed in Patrick Henry’s 1799 estate inventory. Three books still bear Henry’s printed bookplate.

This handwritten tune book, attributed to Owen Madden, includes actual scores for the music of the American Revolution period.

This well-preserved musket is marked “NEW JERSEY” was produced by Richard Wilson’s London gun-making firm.