General Lewis Littlepage Sword

Holding the Turkish scimitar (sword) that my 5th Great Uncle, General Lewis Littlepage, took from an assassin in 1784.

(Gen. Littlepage was a U.S. Diplomat, Advisor to the last King of Poland, Diplomat to the Russian Court of Catherine the Great, Polish Representative to France, fought at the Battle of Gibraltar, & was admired by George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Field Marshal Suvorov, & Gen. Lafayette)