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冬日的天空-克里斯蒂安娜·安吉利尼
-1113398 Winter Sky, 1998, (oil on canvas), Angelini, Cristiana / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images
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垂死的特库姆塞-费迪南德·佩特里希
-Tecumseh was a vital figure in the Native 美国艺术家 resistance to U.S. expansionism after the Revolution. A warrior chief from the Ohio Valley, he worked to build a coalition of Indigenous nations that would block white settlers from encroaching further west. In the War of 1812 (1812−1815), Tecumseh strategically allied his forces with the British but was killed by U.S. troops in the Battle of the Thames. The future president William Henry Harrison, who led that pivotal battle, recognized the formidable challenge Tecumseh’s coalition would have posed to the United States, calling him, \"one of those uncommon geniuses, which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions.\"