Title

Charles Wilkes, American naval officer and explorer, 1872. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Charles Wilkes, American naval officer and explorer, 1872. Wilkes (1798-1877) led a US government expedition that explored the northwest coast of North America and part of the coast of Antarctica, later named Wilkes Land, and circumnavigated the globe. In 1861, as commander of the 'San Jacinto' during the American Civil War, he stopped the British mail steamer 'Trent'. This incident, the Trent affair, nearly involved the Union in a war with Britain. Wilkes was court-martialed in 1864. Engraving from John Gilmary Shea's A Child's History of the United States, Hess and McDavitt, (New York, 1872).
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Date

1872

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C11_123

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (2,9Mb) / 11,7in x 16,5in / 3519 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men country guy war location century officer explorer concept Navy B&W sailor MONOCHROME warfare sailors United States of America United States naval warfare 19th century black & white black and white B W American Civil War nineteenth century American America USA The Print Collector naval uniform Charles Wilkes Charles engraving portrait Unknown John Gilmary Shea Shea John Gilmary Wilkes Charles (1798-1877) John Gilmary Shea engraving portrait