Oil on canvas. A man in the foreground of this work gestures towards 'HMS Sutherland', a 50-gun ship of the British Royal Navy. The ship was built at Rotherhithe in London and launched on 15 October 1741. It is here depicted departing New York in 1758 for Halifax, Nova Scotia, where British forces assembled and trained in preparation for the Siege of Louisbourg. The operation was a pivotal battle of the Seven Years' War (or French and Indian War; 1756-63). The 1758 conflict between France and Britain ended French rule in Canadian Atlantic provinces, leading to France’s loss of Quebec in 1759 and of the remainder of French North America the following year.
