Defence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina mb-code 42-22581665 The famous Michelin Man holds

The famous Michelin Man holds up a glass full of sharp objects which hold no fear for Michelin tyres

the Carolina Parakeet

Plate 39 from The Costumes of China by Major George Henry Mason

Men in 19th-century dress

Defence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina mb-code 42-22581665 The famous Michelin Man holdsDefence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 1861 (c1880). Fort Sumter was the place where the opening shots of the American Civil War were fired, on 12 April 1861. The following day the Union garrison surrendered. The Confederacy then held the fort until 17th February 1865. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.