Lady Harriet Ackland: This amiable Lady accompanied her Husband to Canada in the Year 1776, & during two Campaigns, under went such fatigue & distress as female fortitude was thought incapable of supporting; and once She narrowly escaped with life from her Tent which was set on fire in the Night. The Event here commemorated deserves to be recorded in History. In the unfortunate Action between G. B

Color engraving by and after Pollard, published Novr. 15, 1784; 'Lady Ackland standing in a boat, with a maid and her husband's valet, accompanied by Major Brudinell who carries a flag of truce, holding out a letter from Burgoyne to Gates, requesting that she be allowed to attend her husband, who has been taken prisoner, as they approach the enemy camp on the left, where a sentry lies pointing a rifle at them' -- British Museum Color engraving by and after Pollard, published Novr. 15, 1784; 'Lady Ackland standing in a boat, with a maid and her husband's valet, accompanied by Major Brudinell who carries a flag of truce, holding out a letter from Burgoyne to Gates, requesting that she be allowed to attend her husband, who has been taken prisoner, as they approach the enemy camp on the left, where a sentry lies pointing a rifle at them' -- British Museum Oblong large folio; margins trimmed.