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Woodcut for A Song, composed on the evacuation of Boston by the British troops, commanded by General Howe: : who were panic struck, and thrown into the utmost confusion, at the appearrance of General Washington, with a detachment of the American army, who in one night, (unexpectedly to the Britons,) erected strong breast-works, with heavy cannon pointed at the Men of War, then lying in the harbour

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A Song, composed on the evacuation of Boston by the British troops, commanded by General Howe : who were panic struck, and thrown into the utmost confusion, at the appearrance of General Washington, with a detachment of the American army, who in one night, (unexpectedly to the Britons,) erected strong breast-works, with heavy cannon pointed at the Men of War, then lying in the harbour
A New song, on the death of Robert Howell Robert Howell, an American citizen, pressed into the British service, and by Britons most barbarously murdered on being compelled to fight on board the Little Belt, against his own countrymen, in which unnatural conflict he lost his leg and thigh, struck off by a cannon ball, and died in a few hours after, of the wound.

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“Woodcut for A Song, composed on the evacuation of Boston by the British troops, commanded by General Howe: : who were panic struck, and thrown into the utmost confusion, at the appearrance of General Washington, with a detachment of the American army, who in one night, (unexpectedly to the Britons,) erected strong breast-works, with heavy cannon pointed at the Men of War, then lying in the harbour,” Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project, accessed June 10, 2023, https://www.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/462.