Some excellent verses on Admiral Vernon's taking the forts and castles of Carthagena, in the month of March last.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 4810.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757--Poetry.

Vernon, Edward.

Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757.

Cartagena (Colombia)--History--Siege, 1741--Poetry.

Cartagena (Colombia).

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1741.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (relief cut)

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Sold [by Thomas Fleet] at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill., [1741]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Verse in eighteen numbered stanzas; first line: Attend all nations round about.

The siege of Carthagena took place in 1741. This broadside was printed before the defeat of the British forces was known. Cf. Winslow, O.E. American broadside verse, 1930, pages 116. Thomas Fleet printed at the Sign of the Heart and Crown at this date.

Text in two columns; relief cut of the siege, at head.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 4810).

Cited in:

Evans 4810

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 759

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 774

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