Gen. Washington.

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Creator / Contributor: Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell
1748-1808
Title: Gen. Washington: a new favourite song, at the American camp. To the tune of the British grenadiers
Vain Britons boast no longer, with proud indignity
War and Washington
British grenadier (Tune)
Alternative Title: Vain Britons boast no longer, with proud indignity
War and Washington
Place: United States
Publisher: s.n.
Date: 1776?]
1776
Physical Description: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 34 x 21 cm.
Notes: Ballad, in twelve stanzas; first line: Vain Britons boast no longer, with proud indignity.
First line: Vain Britons boast no longer, with your proud indignity.
This song appears, with title, "War and Washington; A song composed at the beginning of the American Revolution," in Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell. Miscellaneous poems ..., Portsmouth, N.H., 1801, p. 52-53.
N-YHS copy: fabric lining, mounted on paper backing.
References: Bristol
Shipton & Mooney
Ford, W.C. Broadsides,
Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry,
Subject temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
Subject: History
Subject personal name: Washington, George
1732-1799
Subject geographic name: United States
Material type or medium of original: Broadsides.
Ballads.
National songs.
Songs.