(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) British battle song which begins Let t

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) British battle song which begins "Let then our ancient honour shine." Letterpress broadsheet, 9 x 3 1/4; trimmed, with scrapbook mount remnant on verso. Np, circa 1779-82

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An unusual discovery: a five-verse British patriotic poem which appears to be entirely unknown to scholarship--or, at least, to Google. "Thousands of our men are slain / By Americans, France and Spain / But yet the victory they can't gain / Which makes our fame ring louder / We'll sooner die than we will run / While we can stand with sword or gun / We'll fight like ancient British sons / The raging main with blood we'll stain / Before we'll yield to France or Spain / While we have shot and powder." Mentions General Clinton, Admiral Rodney and other British military leaders. As the poem refers to Spain as a combatant along with France and America, it must have been composed after 1779.