George Washington (not the then incumbent president, John Adams) is shown riding in the Federal Chariot, a representation of the United States Government. He is being pulled by a team of horses and militiamen, shown here marching under a flag entitled “volunteers.” Three men, recognizable as Congressman Albert Gallatin, former French Ambassador Citizen Genêt, and Vice-President Thomas Jefferson, are shown attempting to “Stop de wheels of de gouvernement.” Being trampled on the ground is Benjamin Bache, a Jeffersonian journalist and editor of the Philadelphia Aurora. Further insulting Bache is a dog shown urinating on his newspaper. On the left are French troops shown killing and maiming, one of whom is shown dancing with a head on a pike. Below is the caption “The Cannibals are landing.” Above them is an image of the great seal of America, the “Shield & Eagle,” shooting lightning bolts towards them.
Harriet Tubman (c.1822-1913): Born into bondage, beaten and brutalized, she not only escaped but returned time and again into the belly of the Southern beast to rescue and guide to freedom scores of the enslaved. During the Civil War she served the cause of freedom as a scout behind enemy lines, providing priceless intelligence to the Union army. She is widely credited as the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States for her role during the 1863 raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 enslaved people. Frederick Douglass: “I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have.”
Josephine Baker (1906-1975): A school dropout at 12, married twice before she was 16, through sheer talent she rose from the mean streets of St. Louis to Broadway via Harlem and then took the Folies Bergère in Paris by storm. Working for Allied intelligence and the Resistance during World War II, she continued the fight for desegregation and civil rights all her life – she was the only official female speaker by the side of Dr. King at the 1963 March on Washington.
Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000): The entertainment industry that was her forte would cast her as the definition of beauty and brains. An immigrant who became a big star in Hollywood opposite Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert and Spencer Tracy, she co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during World War II using frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology foundational to modern Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962): Dubbed the “First Lady of the World” by President Harry S. Truman in recognition of her life-long commitment to human rights. She was born into privilege, but her society wedding to Franklin Roosevelt resulted in a complicated marriage (six children; having to remain a partner throughout his infidelity and disability; often separate lives) that ultimately elevated her to the most active and influential First Lady in U.S. history. An informal ambassador for her husband throughout America during the Great Depression and internationally during World War II she continued to crisscross the globe advocating for her causes for many years afterwards, playing a critical role in the formation and mission statement of the United Nations.
TBF, he did get the shot: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZzzRhAtukE/
(This is the post-game stabilized version - you can see on the big screen within the picture how the camera wobbles after hitting the player in real time!)
British General William Howe as a lion stamping its paw on a map of Philadelphia chases various Patriot leaders in the guise of other animals - John Hancock as a donkey in a lion's skin, George Washington as an armadillo, John Laurens, John Adams, and Charles Lee as dogs, Isaac Putnam as a boar. Note the eagle (representing Britain's German auxiliaries) swooping overhead with the snake of "Independence" in its beak and talons; a squirrel in the branches of a liberty tree scattering paper currency (representing the depreciation of the Continental dollar); and an owl flying away holding a sign inscribed "Louis Baboon a Paris" (a reference to Patriot diplomacy seeking to bring Bourbon France into the war).