2-715-030 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Death of Robert Ross, near Baltimore. As soon as he perceived that he was wounded he fell into the arms of a Brother Officer', (1814), 1816. Robert Ross (1766-1814) Major General in the British army, served in the Napoleonic Wars, was shot commanding troops at North Point, before the Battle of Baltimore 1814. From "The History of the War, from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Present Time, Vol. III", by Hewson Clarke, Esq. [T. Kinnersley, Limited, London, 1816]