From Flickr: “LC-DIG-PGA-04399” by Photograph Curator

May 24, 2015 Uncategorized

LC-DIG-PGA-04399: St. Eustache, one of the Isles of the West Indies, undergoing a British naval assault. This island gave Continental ship Andrew Doria, the first gun salute from a foreign nation to the American colonies on November 16, 1776. Created by Augsbourg, possibly 1781. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (5/22/2015).

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