The Battle of the Kegs
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title:
The Battle of the Kegs
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The Battle of the Kegs is a ballad written by Francis Hopkinson dramatizing an attempted attack upon the British Fleet in the harbor of Philadelphia on January 6, 1778 during the American Revolutionary War. The kegs themselves were made by Colonel Joseph Borden's cooperage to the specifications of Caleb Carman and designed by David Bushnell, an inventor and graduate of Yale College. They were filled with gunpowder and released to float down the Delaware River. It was hoped that they would contac
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Kegs
date created:
2006-03-24T21:30:36Z
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2024-08-27T07:28:42Z
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