2 April 1776, NYC Continental Congress members Benjamin Franklin, Charles Carroll & Samuel Chase sail up the North (Hudson) River for Montreal. Their mission was to convince Canada to join America’s Independence movement and become the 14th colony.

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Did you know that you can access many of our India Office prints, paintings and photographs freely through Europeana?

Below: 'The Medusa, or Portuguese Man of War' (1776) from James Forbes' 'Oriental Memoirs'.

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John Constable (1776–1837), Cloud Study, Stormy Sunset, 1821–1822.

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12 Mar 1776 Baltimore A public notice in local papers recognizing the sacrifice of women to the cause of the revolution. The notice urged others to recognize women's contributions on the battlefield, in camps, on the march, and in cities, towns & farms.

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11 March 1776 Cambridge MA, Gen Washington forms his personal guard. Learn more about this unique unit, in my Yankee Doodle Spies Blog post, the Life Guard. https://t.co/C0FuowcOfS

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Courtesans of the Shin Kanaya, from the series “Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters, by Katsukawa Shunsho, 1776

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L'Ellebore à fleurs rosacées - pink flowered hellebore.

Coloured engraved plate from Pierre Joseph Buchoz, 'Collection precieuse et enluminée des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la Chine, que dans ceux de l'Europe' (1776).

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Virtus was the deity of bravery and military strength, the personification of the virtue of virtus (valor, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth). In the in 1776, Virtus was made the central figure in the Seal of and the subsequent state flag.

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Richard Earlom, Liber Veritatis: No. 135, A Landscape, with Buildings, Mercury Stealing Admetuss' Cattle from Apollo, 1776 https://t.co/9AQCpPQoud

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