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Broadside, 1815
45.6 cm x 27.6 cm
Boston: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly Jun., [1815]
This broadside contains a verse about the capture and burning of Washington, D. C. by the British on 24 August 1814, during the War of 1812.
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