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Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: on the stone, recto, l.l.: Painted by STEARNS, Inscription: on the stone, recto, l.r.: Lith. by Regnier Implemercier, Paris, Inscription: on the stone, recto, l.c.: LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINTON THE SOLDIER COUPIL & Co. New York, Paris, London & Berlin, Inscription: on the stone, recto, l.c.: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1854 by M. Knoedler in the clerk's Office of the District of the United States for the southern district of New York., Inscription: on the stone, recto, l.r.: During the whole of the bastle [sic] of Monongahela Col. Washington behaved with the greatest courage. "By the all powerful dispensations of providence." Said he in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation, for I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, yet, I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Spark's, life of Washington.