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Charles Wilson Peale |
| Object type | painting |
| Description | English: William Moultrie
Artist Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 Sitter William Moultrie, 1730 - 27 Sep 1805 Date 1782 Type Painting Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Stretcher: 67.6 x 57.2 x 2.5cm (26 5/8 x 22 1/2 x 1") Frame: 75.6 x 65.4 x 6.4cm (29 3/4 x 25 3/4 x 2 1/2") Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942 Object number NPG.65.57 Exhibition Label In June 1776, as eight British warships stood poised to put a quick end to the rebellion in the South, William Moultrie, a planter with some experience as a militia captain, was in charge of the hastily built fort on Sullivan's Island in Charles Town harbor. The soft palmetto logs of the fort successfully absorbed bombardment from one hundred guns, whereas Moultrie's men discharged their twenty-five guns with a deliberation that demolished ship rigging and slaughtered enemy sailors. After eleven and a half hours, the British slipped away, giving South Carolina a three-year respite from war. In the background of this portrait-showing Moultrie, risen to a general in the Continental army-can be glimpsed the famous fort, renamed in Moultrie's honor. Data Source National Portrait Gallery See more items in National Portrait Gallery Collection Exhibition American Origins On View NPG, East Gallery 144 |
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| Source/Photographer | National Portrait Gallery |
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- List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War
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