Extra Credit: 1776

In the movie 1776, delegate Caesar Rodney of Delaware is portrayed as being very sick during the debate on Independence. So sick that he went home to Delaware so that he might die in his own bed, only to be brought back to Philadelphia so that he could cast a tie breaking vote, within his delegation, in order to make sure that Delaware voted for Independence.

While Rodney did suffer from skin cancer during much of his adulthood, that is not the reason he had to leave Philadelphia in June of 1776. He was in Delaware in order to stop Loyalist activity there, when he recieved word that the Delaware delegation was deadlocked on the issue of independence. To break that deadlock, Rodney rode eighty miles through a thunderstorm on the night of July 1, 1776, dramatically arriving in Philadelphia "in his boots and spurs" just as the voting was beginning.

Here is the extra credit opportunity:

I am looking for a picture of Caesar Rodney on his horseride back to Philadelphia. It is a very specific picture, one that you have probably had in your possesion before without even knowing it. In fact, you might have a copy of it in your house right now.

The first person to bring me this picture will recieve 25 points extra credit (there is another clue in this sentence).

Each person after that will recieve 10 points extra credit.

I will be accepting these up until Friday.