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Image Not Available for Uniforms of the American Revolution: Baum's Brunswick Dragoons at the Battle of Bennington
Uniforms of the American Revolution: Baum's Brunswick Dragoons at the Battle of Bennington
Image Not Available for Uniforms of the American Revolution: Baum's Brunswick Dragoons at the Battle of Bennington
Artist/Maker (American, 1873 – 1923)

Uniforms of the American Revolution: Baum's Brunswick Dragoons at the Battle of Bennington

ca. 1910
Place madeNew York, United States, North America
Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and graphite on board
Overall: 11 × 8 in. (27.9 × 20.3 cm)
Mat: 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Charles MacKubin Lefferts
1923.152
This watercolor shows Brunswick dragoons of the Regiment von Riedesel cutting their way through encircling American forces at the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, on the Walloomsac River in northern New York. Of two hundred German dragoons who fought bravely under Lieutenant-Colonel Baum, only one officer and twenty-nine men survived to return to Burgoyne's British army before it was compelled to surrender at Saratoga.
Markingssignature: lower right: "Chas. M. Lefferts"
InscribedSigned at lower right in red gouache: "Chas. M. Lefferts"; verso inscribed at upper center in graphite: "Uniform of / Baum's Brunswick dragoons / Regt. Reidesel. / 1777 / (Brunswick dragoons cutting their / way out at Bennington, Vt. in / 1777.)"
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