The Battle of the Kegs

Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791) · 1778

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A signer of the Declaration of Independence, laughing at the British navy for firing on floating kegs in the Delaware.

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Public domain. Text from Selections from American Poetry, with Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, edited by Margaret Sprague Carhart, Project Gutenberg ebook #3650. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.

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