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North American Indians delivering up English captives to Colonel Henry Bouquet, commander of the Royal American Regiment, 1764. Engraving by Pierre Charles Canot after Benjamin West, 1765. Published in ‘An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians in the year 1764: under the command of Henry Bouquet’ by William Smith, 1765-1766. Verso - a pencil sketch of an unidentified classical scene with hills beyond. Associated with 60th (or Royal American) Regiment of Foot, French and Indian Wars, North America (1744-1755), Seven Years War, North America (1756-1763), Pontiac Rebellion (1763). The original of the recto image dates to 1765 and is in YCBA, Mellon Collection, New Haven Ct, USA. The book was first published by T Jefferies, Philadelphia in 1765, but this engraving derives from the edition published in London in 1766.

Seven Years War, North America (1756-1763), Pontiac Rebellion (1763-1764)