American Privateer General Armstrong, Capt. Sam C. Reid Frame Style:Bourbon Frame half-priest — and the patent

half-priest — and the patent office was where their faith was filed

Declaration of Independence E Pluribus Unum 1776-1876

The imagery speaks in the visual grammar of the lodge: regalia

rendered with the devotional precision of a man who believed God geometrized

the others orbiting him like satellites of a defeated star

American Privateer General Armstrong, Capt. Sam C. Reid Frame Style:Bourbon Frame half-priest — and the patentAmerican Privateer General Armstrong, Capt. Sam C. Reid a maritime portrait of the brig that bloodied a British squadron in Fayal harbor in 1814, and of the captain whose stubborn defense became one of the War of 1812's stranger legends, fought in neutral waters under a moonless Azorean sky. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical