Eyewitness Accounts from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Manuscript map of Boston and Boston Harbor, 1776
A Plan of Boston, and its environs...
A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs...Poem about British by an American Lady, 11 Feb. [1776]
![Poem about British by an American Lady, 11 Feb. [1776]](/database/images9/5246_poem_work_ref.jpg "Poem about British by an American Lady, 11 Feb. [1776]")
This manuscript poem by an anonymous "American Lady" satirically describes British officials and generals including General Thomas Gage who relinquished command of the British Army to General Howe in October 1775 and departed for England.