(ENGLAND 1798) Glorious Official News Matter Worthy Congrat

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(ENGLAND--1798.) Glorious Official News, Matter Worthy Congratulation, and Thanksgiving. Broadside extra of the Columbian Centinel, 20 x 6 1/2 inches; moderate dampstaining. [Boston], 28 November 1798

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An early American report of the Battle of the Nile, in which Lord Nelson crushed the French navy. It is described by this American paper as "an event of more consequence to us, in the present crisis, than all the naval or land battles hitherto achieved, by the friends of peace and good order." Why the American cheerleading for the British Navy? The Quasi-War with France was then at its height.