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KING GEORGE’S WAR, THE CAPTURE OF LOUISBOURG – New-England Bravery: Being a full and true Account of the taking of the City of Louisbourg, by the New-England Forces under the Command of the Gallant General Pepperell, on the 17th of June, 1745. Boston: sold at the Heart and Crown [1746].
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KING GEORGE’S WAR, THE CAPTURE OF LOUISBOURG – New-England Bravery: Being a full and true Account of the taking of the City of Louisbourg, by the New-England Forces under the Command of the Gallant General Pepperell, on the 17th of June, 1745. Boston: sold at the Heart and Crown [1746].
A rare, graphic broadside celebrating the capture of the French Fortress of Louisbourg on 17 June 1745—likely the first American broadside concerning a major event to bear an illustration. The imposing French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island posed a significant threat to the New England fishing fleet plying the Grand Banks, while providing a haven for privateers. In 1745 a large force of New England militia under the command of William Pepperell, laid siege to the fortress, forcing its surrender on 28 June 1745. When the British government returned the fortress to France under the terms of the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, it was viewed by New Englanders as a betrayal. The fortress would again fall to British forces in 1758—this time permanently. Not in Evans. Ford, Mass. Broadsides 833 (notes a copy in a private collection). We could trace only one other copy, in the Massachusetts Historical Society (but bearing a variant center-column divider). Ford notes that the woodcut was reused on “Two favorite Songs made on the Evacuation of the Town of Boston, by the British Troops, on the 17th of March, 1776.”
Broadside, 312 x 208 mm. with handwritten annotation at bottom margin: “Jonathan Livermore His Verses” and again on verso: “Jonathan Livermore His Verses May 24 1746.” (Weak and partially separated folds reinforced with tape on verso with mild toning to recto, some moderate wear.)
A rare, graphic broadside celebrating the capture of the French Fortress of Louisbourg on 17 June 1745—likely the first American broadside concerning a major event to bear an illustration. The imposing French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island posed a significant threat to the New England fishing fleet plying the Grand Banks, while providing a haven for privateers. In 1745 a large force of New England militia under the command of William Pepperell, laid siege to the fortress, forcing its surrender on 28 June 1745. When the British government returned the fortress to France under the terms of the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, it was viewed by New Englanders as a betrayal. The fortress would again fall to British forces in 1758—this time permanently. Not in Evans. Ford, Mass. Broadsides 833 (notes a copy in a private collection). We could trace only one other copy, in the Massachusetts Historical Society (but bearing a variant center-column divider). Ford notes that the woodcut was reused on “Two favorite Songs made on the Evacuation of the Town of Boston, by the British Troops, on the 17th of March, 1776.”
Broadside, 312 x 208 mm. with handwritten annotation at bottom margin: “Jonathan Livermore His Verses” and again on verso: “Jonathan Livermore His Verses May 24 1746.” (Weak and partially separated folds reinforced with tape on verso with mild toning to recto, some moderate wear.)