Cartoon #1 American Rattlesnake

1.) The cartoon drawn by James Gilray shows a snake circling armies. The large snake that has already encircled the British at Saratoga and Yorktown has a third empty circle on the left, indicating that there is still room for another captured British army. "Two British Armies I have thus Burgoyn'd, And room for more I've got behind," is what the snake had written on its tongue. The colonists were ready to defeat the British army once again. The Americans have begun to demostrate their ability to defeat the British.

2.) Gilray, supporting the American colonists in their revolution, is trying to keep them motivated and make them believe that they can easily defeat the British and conquer their armies. Gilray believes that the colonists are dangerous and more powerful than the Britsh.

3.) The American rebels indeed did keep momentum in their fight against Britain. As in the end, the colonists gained their freedom from Britain by defeating it and its armies in the American Revolution and with the written Declaration of Independence.