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The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar
John Trumbull
1789 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 71 x 107 in. (180.3 x 271.8 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
This painting depicts the events of the night of November 26, 1781, when British troops, long besieged by Spanish forces at Gibraltar, made a sortie, or sudden attack, against the encroaching enemy ba...
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