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Description: Mexican War Midshipmen's Monument erected at Annapolis on the grounds of the United States Naval Academy in memory of Thomas Branford Shubrick (1825-1847), killed while in the act of pointing this gun during the bombardment of Vera Cruz; and Passed Midshipmen Henry A. Clemson, John R. Hynson, and Midshipman Wingate Pillsbury, who were drowned when the brig “Somers” was capsized and lost in a squall off Vera Cruz in December 1846.
Title: Appletons' Shubrick, John Templar - Midshipmen's Monument
Credit: Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, v. 5, 1892, p. 518
Author: Jacques Reich (probably based on an earlier work by another artist)
Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country. PD-1923 Public domain in the United States //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appletons%27_Shubrick,_John_Templar_-_Midshipmen%27s_Monument.jpg
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