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Woodcut for Lord Nelson's battle of the Nile

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“Woodcut for Lord Nelson's battle of the Nile,” Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project, accessed September 30, 2023, https://www.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/386.