Historic Pelham

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Image of Sir Thomas Musgrave, a British Officer Wounded During the Battle of Pelham on October 18, 1776


British officer Thomas Musgrave was made a Lieutenant Colonel of the 40th Regiment on August 28, 1776, only about eight weeks before serving in the Battle of Pelham on October 18, 1776.  He is, perhaps, the most well-known of the combatants who was wounded during the Battle of Pelham.  Indeed, I have written about Thomas Musgrave before.  See:

Mon., Oct. 30, 2006:  Brief Biographical Data About Sir Thomas Musgrave, British Lieutenant Colonel Wounded at the Battle of Pelham on October 18, 1776.

Thu., Jan. 22, 2009:  Another Brief Biography of Sir Thomas Musgrave, a British Officer Wounded at the Battle of Pelham on October 18, 1776.  

Below is a rather rare image of Thomas Musgrave, shown shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War.  The image was engraved in about 1797 from a painting created in 1786.   



Lieutenant General Thomas Musgrave, Governor of 
Gravesend & Tilbury Fort, Colonel of the 76.th Regiment of Foot.
Engraved from a Picture painted in 1786: with a view of Mr. Chew's House,
near German-town, in Pennsylvania 1777. L. Abbot 
pinx.t 1786. G.S. Facius sc. 1797. [n.d. c.1797.]

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