2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
Warren, Joseph (1741-1775). American Patriot, member of the Sons of Liberty; Physician. Mortally wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill. President of the Massachusetts Revolutionary Congress, Revolutionary War General, and established man of medicine, Joseph Warren was a leading activist in the war cause of the 1770s. On April 18, 1775 he dispatched Paul Revere and William Dawes to ride to Lexington in secret to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of their pending arrest by British troops and to alert the militia along the way that the British were on the move. During the war, Warren fell in battle, and this moment was immortalized in a painting by John Trumbull called "The Death of General Warren." Cut Signature 4 ¼" x 1". Mounted to a larger portrait which measures 5" x 7 ¾". A fine opportunity to acquire one of the truly important autographs of the American Revolution. Warren had been commissioned a major general in the colony's militia shortly before the June 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. Rather than exercising his rank, Warren chose to serve in the battle as a private soldier, and was killed in combat when British troops stormed the redoubt atop Breed's Hill. 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. He has been memorialized in the naming of many towns, counties, streets, and other locations in the United States, by statues, and in numerous other ways.
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