Woodcut for 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 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,” Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project, accessed October 22, 2026, https://collections.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/513.