Met associate director Carrie Rebora Barratt on leadership in John Trumbull's "The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar", 1789. This painting depicts the events of the night of November 26, 1781, when British troops, long besieged by Spanish forces at Gibraltar, made a sortie, or sudden attack, against the encroaching enemy batteries. The focal point of the painting is the tragic death of the Spanish officer Don Jose de Barboza.