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Painting depicting Ethan Allen capturing Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1755.

Portrait of Ethan Allen, a hero of the American Revolution.

The Green Mountain Boys were a militia group formed by Ethan Allen and others to help protect settlers in the New Hampshire Grants in land disputes with New York. Allen and the Green Mountain Boys led the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775. The Green Mountain Boys would eventually be mustered into the Continental Army, under the command of Seth Warner.

Painting by C.F. Blauvelt depicting Benedict Arnold directing Major John Andre to hide his dispatches to General Clinton in his boot.

Crispus Attucks was an African-American who was the first person killed during the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770.

Woodcut of General Edward Braddock being carried from the field during the Battle of the Monongahela.

Engraving of British General Edward Braddock by William Sartain.

The Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from February 12 through 16, 1862, the Union victory at Battle of Fort Donelson opened the Cumberland River as a pathway for the federal invasion of the South in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. This painting depicts the capture of Confederate General Simon Bolivar, Jr. and his Army.

During the Siege of Boston, George Washington sent Henry Knox on an expedition to retrieve cannon and artillery from Fort Ticonderoga.

A sketch of the field of battle with the disposition of the troops in the beginning of the engagement of the 9th of July on the Monongahela 7 miles from Fort Du Quesne.

Soon after colonial militia forces captured Fort Ticonderoga, the Congress also decided that a takeover of Canada was an important part of defeating the British in North America, and a plan was put in place to invade Canada and capture Montreal and Quebec. General Richard Montgomery was one of the commanding officers of the invasion force.

General Richard Montgomery took command of American forces during the Siege of Fort St. John during the American Revolution. After he took Fort St. John, he took Montreal and attempted to take Quebec. He was killed during the Battle of Quebec.

This print represents the process of making sugar from sugar cane at a plantation in the British West Indies.

Joseph Warren was one of the early leaders of the fight for independence in Boston. He wrote the Suffolk Resolves, and participated in the Battle of Concord, and the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Lithograph by Claude Régnier depicting George Washington during the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755.

David Wooster was a Connecticut militia leader who served in King George’s War, the French and Indian War, and the American Revolution.