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Oil on canvas. United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.
An excellent copy of this painting, by George Catlin (1796—1872), is on display in the Jefferson Room, Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, VA.
Oil on canvas. United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.
An excellent copy of this painting, by George Catlin (1796—1872), is on display in the Jefferson Room, Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, VA.
The disarrayed condition of the colonies in 1764 — economies and societies in flux with changes wrought by war, governments trying simultaneously to adjust to international peace and cope with the effects of Indian insurrections — helps explain how the colonists reacted to British efforts to reform imperial relations.… But the single most significant factor was the depression that by 1764 had fastened a clammy grip on trade in every colony, and which would not fully release it until the decade had ended.