A photograph of the 1908 unveiling ceremony in Fort Greene Park.
The squalid conditions aboard the HMS Jersey
The Prison Ship Jersey
The original Monument in Vinegar Hill.
An early postcard of the initial monument and crypt in Fort Greene Park.
A period postcard of the 1908 monument.
POP QUIZ:
WHERE WERE THEY FROM?
Test Your Knowledge of the Revolutionary War’s
International Flavor with Our Pop Quiz!
What country were they from?

1. George Farragut - Soldier, Sailor and Privateer, who fought alongside Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry.

2. Juan de Miralles - Close friend of the Washingtons, credited with saving Washington's army in 1799 by supplying the soldiers with limes when they were dying of scurvy.

3. Filippo Mazzei - Physician and tactician who fought alongside Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, helped persuade French to support the Revolution financially and militarily.

4. Christian Febiger - Joined the Massachusetts Militia following the Lexington Alarm, fought at Bunker Hill and served until peace was secured eight years later, confidante of George Washington, mustered out as a Colonel.

5. Count Axel von Fersen - Distinguished himself in the Siege of Yorktown serving as aide-de-champ to Rochambeau, later reported to be Marie Antoinette's lover.

See answers below. No peeking!
Answers:

1. Catalonia. He was born Jordi Farragut;

2. Havana, Cuba

3. Tuscany

4. Denmark

5. Sweden

 
 
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