(1742-1807) A Mohawk who held a colonel's commission from the King. After the revolution he returned…
True Bravery, the American Army at Valley Forge in 1777. Caption below illustration: "After mentioning…
This is an illustration of the British searching the Colonial Americans for illegal items at the docks.
"The next day there was a lively time in Cambridge. All Middlesex was aflame, to say nothing of the…
Illustration of a cone of revolution used to show that the lateral area is equal to half the product…
"The lateral area of a frustum of a cone of revolution is equal to half the sum of the circumferences…
"The volume of a frustum of a circular cone is equivalent to the sum of the volumes of three cones whose…
Illustration of a cone with a polygon inscribed used to show that the volume of a circular cone is equal…
"While Paul Revere is riding out through Medford, Ebenezer Door, mounted on an old plod-jogging horse,…
"The guillotine is an apparatus for beheading persons at one stroke, adopted by the National Assembly…
The guillotine was a device used for carrying out executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall…
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Powder Treason, as it was known at the time, was a failed assassination…
A spacious public hall in boston, Massachusetts, erected in 1742 by Peter Faneuil and presented by him…
Two women dressed as men arresting a pair of British officers.
A minuteman with his wife and son looks into the distance as he prepares to fight within a minute's…
This six dollar bill is an example of Continental paper money of the United colonies issued in 1776.
A revolutionary flint-lock pistol with a short, thick barrel. Requires reloaded after each shot.
"The motion of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars with respect to Earth." — Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893
Illustration of a sphere generated by the revolution of a semicircle ACB about its diameter AB as an…
The Church of the Val-de-Grâce is the church of a former royal abbey in the 5th arrondissement of Paris,…
An illustration of George Washington crossing the Delaware River on December 25, 1776. This event occurred…
A wheel is a circular device that is capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation…