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News from America, or the patriots in the dumps
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News from America, or the patriots in the dumps

November 1776

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Lord North shows a letter from General Howe, whose victory at Long Island had just recently been announced. A dowdy, bare-breasted woman with a liberty cap falls down weeping and American ships sink in the background.

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