Citation - South Carolina & Amer Genl Gazette: 1780.11.15

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Index Entry Lyric, topical [beg] Refugee captain lost two of his men, A 
Location Charleston 
Citation
SCAGG.780.018
15 Nov 1780:22 (23/1114)
The following verses were written on a late exchange of
prisoners.
  A refugee captain lost two of his men, 
  And ardently wishing to have them again, 
  To the major applied for an exchange to fix, 
  And requested to know if for two he'd take six, 
  . . . [4 more lines of poetry with a pro-British punch
line concerning the depreciation of American men and money.]


Generic Title South Carolina & Amer Genl Gazette 
Date 1780.11.15 
Publisher Wells, John, Jun 
City, State Charleston, SC 
Year 1780 
Bibliography B0044884
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