File:PenobscotExpeditionBySerres.jpg
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Summary
Dominic Serres: Destruction of the American Fleet at Penobscot Bay, 14 August 1779
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English: Destruction of the American Fleet at Penobscot Bay, 14 August 1779 |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: This is a depiction of naval action in the American Revolutionary War's 1779 Penobscot Expedition.
painting shows the bay viewed from the south. In the left background is the ‘Raisonable’ with a white ensign and broad pendant and firing into the ‘Hunter’. |
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| Date | circa 1779 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 101.6 cm (40 in); width: 152.4 cm (60 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC0425 |
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| Credit line | National Maritime Museum, London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | history.navy.mil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 02:43, 31 October 2011 | | 1,280 × 846 (195 KB) | Botaurus | larger, source: http://collections.nmm.ac.uk/mediaLib/317/media-317771/large.jpg |
| 12:27, 4 June 2009 |  | 800 × 530 (64 KB) | Magicpiano | {{Information |Description={{en|1=This is a depiction of naval action in the w:American Revolutionary War's 1779 w:Penobscot Expedition.}} |Source=http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-7l.htm |Author=Dominic Serres the Elder (1719-1793) |Da |
File usage
The following 13 pages use this file:
- Dominic Serres
- Fort George (Castine, Maine)
- Francis McLean (British Army officer)
- HMS Camilla (1776)
- HMS Diligent (1777)
- HMS Raisonnable (1768)
- Henry Francis Evans
- Massachusetts Naval Militia
- Massachusetts ship Tyrannicide (1776)
- New Ireland (Maine)
- Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga
- Penobscot Expedition
- St. Paul's Church (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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