The Rescue–Sergeants Newton and Jasper of Marion's Brigade, rescuing American prisoners from a British guard, who had stacked their muskets while resting near a spring, South Carolina, 1779.

Publisher Currier & Ives American

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Scene from the American Revolution. American soldiers hold four British soldiers at musket point, three already wounded. The captive Americans, a man and woman with a baby, remain crouched at left.

The Rescue–Sergeants Newton and Jasper of Marion's Brigade, rescuing American prisoners from a British guard, who had stacked their muskets while resting near a spring, South Carolina, 1779., Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907), Hand-colored lithograph

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