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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“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 October 22, 2026, https://collections.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/462.