In John Trumbull's painting Capture of the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton, Monroe can be seen lying wounded at left center of painting.

Students received the usual quota of Plutarch, Shakespeare, Swift, and Addison, as well as such Americans as Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus, Timothy Dwight's Conquest of Canaan, and John Trumbull's poem M ' Fingal.

The current bill was introduced in 1976 and retains Jefferson's portrait on the obverse but replaced Monticello on the reverse with an engraved modified reproduction of John Trumbull's painting Declaration of Independence instead.

Reportedly no contemporary portrait of Benjamin Harrison " The Signer " survives ; the figure labeled as " Benjamin Harrison " in John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence is actually based on his son Benjamin Harrison.

Trumbull's children were also influential in the war effort: Joseph Trumbull was a colonel in the Continental Army, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. was secretary to George Washington, and John Trumbull served first as a soldier and then as Washington's personal aide during the war.

The Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull

He was depicted in John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence even though he neither signed it nor was present when it was signed.

Rutledge is standing on the far right in John Trumbull's famous painting Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | The Declaration of Independence.

Of the five figures standing in the center of John Trumbull | John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, Robert Livingston is depicted in the center of the Committee of Five presenting the draft Declaration to the Second Continental Congress.

" The gathering of the founding fathers was depicted in John Trumbull's famous Declaration of Independence where Hopkins is easily distinguishable as the gentleman standing in the back wearing a hat.

Gates stands front and center in John Trumbull's painting of the Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga ,< ref >

John Trumbull's Surrender of General Burgoyne. Prescott stands right of center wearing all brown, just behind Captain Morgan in white

In John Trumbull's famous painting, Sherman is literally front and center – of those standing up near the desk, he is the second person from the left.

In John Trumbull's Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | The Declaration of Independence, Wythe is in profile farthest to the viewer's left.

John Trumbull's Surrender of General Burgoyne stylizes the American win at Battle of Saratoga | Saratoga.

* Interactive Flash Version of John Trumbull's " Declaration of Independence "

In 1976 production of the two-dollar denomination was resumed and the two-dollar bill was finally assigned as a Federal Reserve Note, with a new design on the back featuring John Trumbull's depiction of the drafting of the United States Declaration of Independence replacing the previous design of Monticello.

An engraved rendition of John Trumbull's The Declaration of Independence replaced Monticello on the reverse.

Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | Declaration of Independence, a painting by John Trumbull depicting the Committee of Five presenting their draft of the United States Declaration of Independence | Declaration of Independence to the Congress on June 28, 1776.

His death, immortalized in John Trumbull's painting, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775, galvanized the rebel forces, and he has been memorialized in many place names in the United States.

John Trumbull ( painter ) | John Trumbull's The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Into Washington on President-elect John F. Kennedy's Convair, the Caroline, winged Actor-Crooner Frank Sinatra and his close Hollywood pal, Cinemactor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy's brother-in-law.

In late August 1861, General John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting Washington, a proclamation of martial law in Missouri.

John Dickinson and Benjamin Franklin's handwritten drafts of the Articles of Confederation are housed at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, the youngest son of Dr. John and Abigail Harris Johnston.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

* The Mystery of Unction Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, DC

In a 1996 USA Today article, Washington State zoologist John Crane said, " There is no such thing as Bigfoot.

It was because of this that when he was two months old, David Lynch moved with his parents to Sandpoint, Idaho, and only two years after that, following the birth of his brother John, the family again moved, this time to Spokane, Washington.

* John Frederick Kiley outfielder for the Washington Nationals ( 1884 ) and Boston Beaneaters ( 1891 )

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

Casement had gone there from the United States the previous year with the support of Clan na Gael leader John Devoy, and after discussions with the German Ambassador in Washington, Count von Bernstorff, to try to recruit an " Irish Brigade " from among Irish prisoners of war and secure German support for Irish independence.

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

Washington's ancestors were from Sulgrave, England ; his great-grandfather, John Washington, had immigrated to Virginia in 1657.

Six of George's siblings reached maturity, including two older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, from his father's first marriage to Jane Butler Washington, and four full siblings, Samuel, Elizabeth ( Betty ), John Augustine and Charles.

A mezzotint of Martha Washington, based on a 1757 portrait by John Wollaston ( painter ) | Wollaston

General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery ( 1792 ).

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

General ( United States ) | General George Washington Resigning His Commission by John Trumbull, Capitol Rotunda ( commissioned 1817 )