Wednesday, 7 October 2020

Frederika Charlotte Riedesel


 Frederika Charlotte Louise von Massow, Baroness (Freifrau) Riedesel zu Eisenbach was the wife of General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel of Brunswick. She accompanied him during the Saratoga Campaign in the American Revolutionary War and kept a journal of the campaign. 

Read the Journal here

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Iroquois warrior

  Artist unknown, Homme Iroquois, late 18th century, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec.