The men who fought on

Capt. Charles Asgill. British soldier trapped in the Huddy affair. 1786 engraving after a drawing by August or Jean-Baptiste de Lorraine. From History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland (London: J. Fielding, 1786-1787) (New York Public Library)

Captain Joshua Barney. Whig. Based on a miniature by contemporary French artist Jean-Baptiste Isabey. (Darlington Digital Library, University of Pittsburgh)

Captain John Barry. Whig. Painted in Philadelphia, possibly by Gilbert Stuart. (U.S. Naval History & Heritage Command photo)

Daniel Boone. Whig. Chester Harding's 1820 portrait of an elderly Boone painted from life. (Massachusetts Historical Society)

General François Claude Amour, Marquis de Bouillé. French. Based on a ca. 1797 portrait by Henri Grévedon, (Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Div. of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library)

Joseph Brant (Thayen-danegea). Mohawk, loyalist. Probably painted by Charles Bird King for History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Thomas McKenney and James Hall, 1836–1844. It was based on an 1806 portrait of Brant, then 64, from life by Ezra Ames, when Brant traveled through Albany. Brant died the next year. (Library and Archives Canada.)

Molly Brant (Konwatsi' Tsiaienni). Mohawk, loyalist. Detail of conceptual portrait by Ontario artist Sara Tyson for a 1986 Canadian postage stamp. (Canada Post Corporation, Author's collection)

Edmund Burke, MP. British. From the studio of Joshua Reynolds, ca. 1769.

(©National Portrait Gallery, London)

Sir Guy Carleton. North American commander-in-chief. British. Unknown artist. (Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1997-8-1)

Virginia Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark, 1779. Whig. The only images of Clark taken from life were painted when he was in his 60s. This portrait came from technology that reverse-aged him. (George Rogers Clark National Historical Park and the Center for Missing & Exploited Children)

Major General Alured Clarke. British. Print based on portrait by William Beechey, 1794. (Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN #3665037)

New York Governor George Clinton. Whig. From a 1790s painting by Joseph Wright. Engraved by Cornelius Tiebout, 1804. (Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library)

General Eyre Coote, about 1763. British. Attributed to Henry Morland. (©National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 124)

Admiral Luis de Córdoba. Spanish. Unknown 18th-century artist. Namesake of Cordova, Alaska. (Museo Naval de Madrid)

General Charles Cornwallis. British. (Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, vol. 1, by Charles Ross, 1859)

Captain-General, Governor-in-chief of Canada James Henry Craig, ca. 1810–1811. British. Gerrit Schipper, artist. (Library and Archives Canada, Acc. #1990-317-1)

General Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, duc de Crillon. French, Spanish. Unknown date and artist. (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)

Jean-Claude-Éléonore Michaud d'Arçon. French. Colonel and chief engineer at Gibraltar. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, N-2)

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Marcus Despard. British. By "Barlow," published in 1803 by Thomas Tegg. (©National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D2267)

Colonel Andrew Deveaux, loyalist, on a 1980 Bahamas postage stamp, with the house he built in the Bahamas in the background.

George Augustus Eliott, general and governor of Gibraltar. British. Detail from Joshua Reynolds portrait, 1787. (The National Gallery, London, NG111)

Benjamin Franklin, whig envoy to France. Bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1779. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

General Bernardo de Gálvez. Spanish. 2014 Carlos Monserrate copy of 1783 portrait by Mariano Salvador Maella. (US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Location of original uncertain, possibly a private collection in Malaga, Spain)

General Matías de Gálvez (Bernardo's father). Spanish. By Andrés López, ca. 1783-1784. (Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico City)

King George III. Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1781. (Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 400935)

Simon Girty. Fanciful drawing of "Girty, the Renegade" from an 1896 Ohio history textbook. (W. H. Venable, Tales from Ohio History for Home and School, Norwalk, Ohio: The Laning Printing Co., 1896, p. 129, Google Books)

General Mordecai Gist, ca. 1774, whig. By Charles Willson Peale. (Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore)

Johannes de Graaff (1729–1813). Dutch governor of St. Eustatius who surrendered to Rodney. By A. L. Brockman, 1834, after an earlier (unlocated) portrait. (New Hampshire State House, Concord. Details)

Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Comte de Grasse. French. Presumably shows Grasse during Battle of the Saintes. Printed in London Magazine, August 1782. (Library of Congress)

Catharine "Caty" Greene, whig, as she might have looked in 1782. Portrait by Malcolm Fraser in 1898. We don't know if Fraser imagined what she looked like as a young woman, based his illustration on an earlier portrait, or extrapolated from the Frothingham portrait below. (Century Magazine, 15:3, January 1898)

Caty Greene. Portrait from life, 1809, when she was 55. Portrait attributed to New York artist James Frothingham. (Telfair Museums, Savannah)

Major General Nathanael Greene. Whig. Statue sculpted by Henri Schonnardt in 1931 is on the steps of the Rhode Island State House. (State of Rhode Island, Secretary of State)

Nathanael Greene. Miniature, oil on wood, 1792, by John Trumbull. The well-connected son of the Connecticut governor and an aide of Washington's, Trumbull undoubtedly had met Greene 16 or 17 years before the painting. (Yale University Art Gallery)

Nathanael Greene. Whig. 21st-century beer label from a company in one of the cities named after Greene. (Natty Greene's Brewing Co., Greensboro NC)

Admiral Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen. French. (Antoine Maurin, lithographer, Biographie Maritime…, vol. 3, by M. Hennequin, 1837)

David Hartley. Diplomat and MP. British. (New York Public Library, Science Photo Library)

Samuel Hearne. Loyalist, explorer, and Hudson's Bay Co. factor. Unknown artist and date. (Darlington Digital Library, University of Pittsburgh)

Admiral Samuel Hood. British. From a portrait by James Northcote, 1784. (The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library)

Samuel Hood. Detail from the James Northcote portrait, 1784. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

Admiral Richard Howe. British. By John Singleton Copley, 1794. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

Capt. Joshua Huddy. Whig. A fanciful 1901 drawing from Our Greater Country by Henry Davenport Northrop. It shows Huddy being led from jail to the scaffold where he was hung. (Library of Congress)

Admiral Edward Hughes. British. (New York Public Library Digital Gallery)

Hyder Ali. Mysorean leader. (Maistre de la Tour, MMDLT, The History of Hyder Shah, revised by Golam Mohammed, London: W. Thacker, 1855)

Hyder Ali. Mysorean. A fanciful ca. 1885 portrait; contemporary descriptions say Hyder was clean-shaven. (James Grant, Cassell's Illustrated History of India, London: Cassell & Co., ca. 1885. Author's collection)

General William Irvine.Whig commander of Fort Pitt. Based on a 1784 portrait by B. Otis who based his on a portrait by Robert Edge Pine. (Published in An Historical Account of the Expedition against Sandusky… by Consul Willshire Butterfield, 1873)

James Jackson, South Carolina — James Jackson

Lt. Col. James Jackson. Whig. (Library of Congress)

John Jay. Whig diplomat. Detail of U.S. stamp issued in 1958, based on 1794 portrait by Gilbert Stuart.

John Jay. Whig. A younger portrait. (Library of Congress)

Admiral Richard Kempenfelt. British. Published in 1785, three years after his death, in History of the War with America… by John Andrews, 1785 (Library of Congress)

Captain Jean François Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse. French. (Library and Archives Canada)

Colonel John Laurens. Whig. Only known portrait. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

Major General Alexander Leslie, 1789. British. (John Kay, A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, 2:1, Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1842. Author's collection)

Major General Alexander Leslie, by Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1783–1787. British. (Private collection in Scotland)

Alexander Leslie, by Allan Ramsay, 1753. (From Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings by Alastair Smart and John Ingamelis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)

General Francis Marion. Whig. Probably a fanciful drawing. (In The Centennial Book of American Biography by James Dabney McCabe, 1876)

Mohawk man. A fanciful British print from first half of 19th century. The original caption says it shows the warrior with a scalping knife. (Darlington Digital Library, University of Pittsburgh)

General James Murray, ca. 1770. British. Artist unknown. (Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1997-227-1)

Capt. Horatio Nelson. British. Painted in 1781 by John Francis Rigaud. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund)

Frederick North. British prime minister. From a 1775 painting by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. (Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library.)

Lieutenant General Charles O'Hara (as colonel, 74th Regiment of Foot), ca. 1791–1795. British. (Private collection)

Ostenaco. Cherokee. No period image exists of Dragging Canoe, who fought as a British ally, but Ostenaco was an older colleague. Detail from a 1762 portrait by Joshua Reynolds, painted when Ostenaco visited London that year on a diplomatic mission when he was in his 50s. Ostenaco died in 1780. (Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa)

General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau. French. Portrait from life, 1782, (Independence National Historical Park)

Admiral George Brydges Rodney, after a portrait by Joshua Reynolds. British. (Library and Archives Canada)

Capt. Josias Rogers. British. Detail of portrait by unknown artist. (Courtesy of the Clarin family, Rogers' descendants.)

Major John Ross. British. Portrait detail shows him as a lieutenant, ca. 1768, when Ross was about 24. Attributed to British painter David Martin. (James Kochan Fine Art & Antiques, www.jameskochan.com)

General Arthur St. Clair. Whig. Charles Willson Peale portrait, ca. 1783. (Independence National Park)

Colonel John Sevier. Whig. Miniature by James Willson Peale. (Tennessee Portrait Project, National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee)

Shawnee man. French engraving. (Darlington Digital Library, University of Pittsburgh)

Major General James Stuart. British commander at Cuddalore, ca. 1786. Detail from portrait by George Romney. (National Galleries of Scotland, PG-1832)

Admiral and Bailli Pierre-André de Suffren. French. Sculptor: Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1787. (Mauritshuis, The Hague)

Tipu Sultan. Mysorean. Published 1800, European Magazine. (Darlington Digital Library, University of Pittsburgh)

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Loyalist. Unknown date. European Magazine. (Darlington Digital Library, University of Pittsburgh)

Captain James Vashon. British. Mezzotint ca. 1809 by John Young, after George Watson. (From Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound by Edmond S. Meany, 1907)

Louis Philippe de Rigaud, the Marquis de Vaudreuil. French. 19th-century engraving by Adolphe Varin. (Library and Archives Canada)

George Washington. Whig. Plaster bust taken from Houdon's life mask. (University of Washington. Author photo)

George Washington. (Detail from 1962 U.S. postage stamp based on Houdon sculpture)

George Washington. An accurate portrait of him in 1794, complete with a scar on his left cheek from an abscessed tooth and smallpox scars, with a mole under his right ear. By William Williams. (Text adapted from U.S. National Library of Medicine online exhibit. Portrait from Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22, A.F. & A.M., Alexandria, Virginia. Photo by Arthur W. Pierson.)

Martha Washington. Far from being ‘frumpy’ and ‘dumpy,’ Martha was George’s match when it came to good looks. At the instigation of historian Patricia Brady, forensic anthropologists from Louisiana State University back-aged portrait of Martha when she was 65 to make an educated guess as to what she looked like in her 20s, when she and George married. Artist Michael Deas then used the image to paint this portrait to illustrated the book jacket of Brady’s biography of Martha. (www.michaeldeas.com)

General Anthony Wayne, ca. 1795. Whig. James Peale, artist. (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Colonel Marinus Willett, ca. 1800. Whig. Unknown artist. (Albany Institute of History & Art)

Colonel Marinus Willett. Detail of portrait, ca. 1791, by Ralph Earl. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of George Willett Van Nest)

The Reverend David Zeisberger, ca. 1761, at age 40. (Heckewelder, A Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren, 1820)