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NHG-E.777.006
4 Feb 1777:31 (1/38)
Boston, January 30. On the Hessian standards, taken at
Trenton, were engraved these words: Nescit Pericula, a
fearlessness of danger, which was not displayed in the
battle where the standards were surrendered to the American
arms, and which hath drawn on the timid Hessian, and his
vaulting motto, the following epigram:
The man who submits without striking a blow,
Must be said, in a sense, no danger to know:
I pray then, what harm, by the humble submission
At Trenton, was done to the standard of Hessian?
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