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- GLC#
- GLC04810
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 1775
- Author/Creator
- Russell, Ezekiel, 1743-1796
- Title
- Bloody Butchery by the British Troops [First printing]
- Place Written
- Salem, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 sheet Height: 54.9 cm, Width: 45.7 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Printed and sold by Ezekiel Russell. Printed broadside in three columns with woodcut mourning borders and two rows of forty woodcut coffins (each captioned with the name of an American casualty). Detailed narrative of battles at Lexington and Concord. References: Evans 13898; Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides 1792; Streeter, American Beginnings 41; Winslow, American Broadside Verse 28.
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