United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Hoppner Meyer1776/1890Colonel Lachlan McIntosh, a Scottish immigrant, served as a military and political leader in revolutionary Georgia. He defended Savannah from the British during the Battle of the Rice Boats on March 2-3, 1776, and later served with General George Washington at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1778.Image of an engraving from a painting of Lachlan McIntosh. McIntosh, a member of a prominent eighteenth-century Scottish Highland family that was among the earliest settlers of the Georgia colony, played an important role in the cause of American independence. He distinguished himself in a career that evolved over three critical periods in the state's early history-from colonial to revolutionary to statehood.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/slavery-revolutionary-georgiahttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/revolutionary-war-georgiaForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/slavery-revolutionary-georgiahttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/revolutionary-war-georgiaForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaThe Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print CollectionColonists--GeorgiaPlantation owners--GeorgiaBusinessmen--GeorgiaBusinesspeople--GeorgiaMen--GeorgiaStatesmen--GeorgiaMcIntosh, Lachlan, 1725-1806Lachlan McIntoshStillImage