Ezra Winter - Wikipedia

Winter studied art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and was a fellow in visual arts at the American Academy in Rome in 1914. Among his best-known works are The Canterbury Tales in the Library of Congress and Fountain of Youth in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Wint…
the foyer of Radio City Music Hall.

•Fountain of Youth mural at the Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center
•the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, Indiana
•the Rochester Savings Bank in Rochester, New York
•wall murals James Monroe High
School in Rochester, New York
•trading floor murals for the New York Cotton Exchange, New York City, for architect Donn Barber, 1923 [3]
•a spectacular six-story banking hall mural for the Guardian Building, and work for the Buhl Building, both in Detroit and both for
architect Wirt C. Rowland

•numerous murals at the Birmingham Public Library in Birmingham, Alabama
•Thomas Jefferson and Canterbury Tales murals, Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.
•Murals in Willard Straight Hall lobby, Cornell University, 1926.
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, located in Vincennes, Indiana, on the banks of the Wabash River at what is believed to be the site of Fort Sackville, is a United States National Historical Park.
The settlement around the forts was best known as the territorial capital of the Northwest Territory (later, the Indiana Territory). The best known event was Gen. William Henry Harrison's mustering of forces at Vincennes just prior to his campaign against the Indian capital at
Prophetstown in Tippecanoe, culminating in the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 during the War of 1812.
The former site of what is known as "Fort Knox II" has been marked and preserved as a state historic site. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The first trading post on the Wabash River was established by the Sieur Juchereau, Lieutenant General of Montreal. He, with 34 Canadiens, founded the company post on 28 October 1702 for the purpose of trading for buffalo hides to be supplied by Native Americans. In the first
three years, the post collected more than 13,000 buffalo hides.[2] When Juchereau died, the post was abandoned. The French colonial settlers left what they considered hostile territory in the Illinois Country, and relocated to Mobile (now in Alabama on the Gulf Coast), then the
capital of La Louisiane.
The exact location of Juchereau's trading post has not been determined. Because the Buffalo Trace crossed the Wabash at Vincennes, some historians believe the post was at or near the site of the modern city of Vincennes. Some other historians place the
post 50 miles to the south. François-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, acting under the authority of the French colony of Louisiana, constructed a fort in 1731–1732. The outpost was designed to secure the lower Wabash Valley for France, mostly by strengthening ties through
trading with the Miami, Wea, and Piankashaw nations. In July 1778, Father Pierre Gibault arrived with news of the alliance between France and the newly declared United States. The Canadien residents took control of the unoccupied Fort Sackville, and Colonel George Rogers Clark
sent Captain Leonard Helm to command the post. In December, a British force consisting of The King's 8th Regiment and Detroit Volunteers under Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hamilton, based at Fort Detroit, retook Fort Sackville, and made Captain Helm a prisoner. In 1787, the US
garrison under Major Jean François Hamtramck built a new fort a few blocks north of the old one and named it Ft. Knox (usually referred to by local historians as Ft. Knox I), after the U.S. Secretary of War. It was located at the present-day intersection of First and Buntin
streets. During the relative peace with the British and most Native American tribes from 1787 to 1803, Ft. Knox was the westernmost American military outpost. Since the Native American territories decreased and moved farther north, it was decided to move the garrison to
Fort Harrison, near Terre Haute, where the troops had won a victory a few years before. The "Muster on the Wabash" is the annual Fall gathering of U.S Army, U.S. Militia, British Mercenaries, and Native American reenactors dedicated to reliving the period's history at Fort Knox 2
As early as 1779 George Mason called Clark the "Conqueror of the Northwest."[39] Because the British ceded the entire Old Northwest Territory to the United States in the Treaty of Paris, some historians, including William Hayden English, credit Clark with nearly doubling the
size of the original thirteen colonies when he seized control of the Illinois country during the war. Clark's Illinois campaign—particularly the surprise march to Vincennes—was greatly celebrated and romanticized.
Treaty of Paris, by Benjamin West (1783), depicts the United States delegation at the Treaty of Paris (left to right): John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin. The British delegation refused to pose, and the painting was never completed
The 1782 French proposal for the territorial division of North America, which was rejected by the Americans

Britain acknowledges the United States (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia[16]) to be free, sovereign, and independent states, and that the British Crown and all heirs and successors relinquish claims to the Government, property, and territorial rights of the same, and every part
thereof, All posts were relinquished peacefully through diplomatic means as a result of the 1794 Jay Treaty.

Fort au Fer
Lake Champlain – Champlain, New York
Fort Dutchman's Point
Lake Champlain – North Hero, Vermont
Fort Lernoult (including Fort Detroit)
Detroit River – Detroit
, Michigan
Fort Mackinac
Straits of Mackinac – Mackinac Island, Michigan
Fort Miami
Maumee River – Maumee, Ohio
Fort Niagara
Niagara River – Youngstown, New York
Fort Ontario
Lake Ontario – Oswego, New York
Fort Oswegatchie
Saint Lawrence River – Ogdensburg, New York
In addition, Perkins noted that the Royal Navy treated American commerce with "relative leniency" during the wars, and many impressed seamen were returned to America. As Spain assessed the informal British-American alliance, it softened its previous opposition to the United
States' use of the Mississippi River and signed Pinckney's Treaty, which the Americans wanted. Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed on October 27, 1795 by the United States and Spain.
Under the secret Third Treaty of San Ildefonso of October 1, 1800, Spanish Louisiana, comprising both the vast territory west of the Mississippi and New Orleans, was formally retroceded to France, but Spain continued to administer it. Again, as in 1783, the boundaries of the
territory being exchanged were not specified. As a result, when France and the United States concluded the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, a new dispute, the second phase of the West Florida Controversy, arose. In 1819 the United States and Spain negotiated the Adams–Onís Treaty in
which Spain ceded all of both West Florida and East Florida into the United States. In 1521, the Spanish Empire created the Virreinato de Nueva España (Viceroyalty of New Spain) to govern its conquests in the Caribbean, North America, and later the Pacific Ocean. In 1682,
La Salle claimed Louisiana for France.[The United States and the Spanish Empire disagreed over the territorial boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The United States maintained the claim of France that Louisiana included the Mississippi River and "all lands whose waters
flow to it". To the west of New Orleans, the United States assumed the French claim to all land east and north of the Sabine River. Spain maintained that all land west of the Calcasieu River and south of the Arkansas River belonged to Tejas and Santa Fe de Nuevo México. The
British government claimed the region west of the Continental Divide between the undefined borders of Alta California and Russian Alaska on the basis of (1) the third voyage of James Cook in 1778, (2) the Vancouver Expedition in 1791–1795, (3) the solo journey of Alexander
Mackenzie to the North Bentinck Arm[notes 2] in 1792–1793, and (4) the exploration of David Thompson in 1807–1812. The United States claimed essentially the same region on the basis of (1) the voyage of Robert Gray up the Columbia River in 1792, (2) the United States Lewis and
Clark Expedition of 1804–1806, and (3) the establishment of Fort Astoria[notes 3] on the Columbia River in 1811.

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