A prospective view of the town of Boston, the capital of New-England - and the landing of --- troops in the year 1768, in consequence of letters from Gov. Bernard, the commissioners, &c. to the British ministry / P. Revere.

Print shows eight British warships (numbered and identified in bottom margin) in the harbor with Boston in the background.

Illus. in: Edes & Gill's North-American almanack, and Massachusetts register for the year .... Boston : Printed and sold by Edes & Gill, 1770, frontispiece.

Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 245.

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