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Woodcut illustrating the British warship the Royal George (shown under full sail, with jack tars up in the rigging & the crows' nest, 2 other smaller ships to the left & right), with a portrait of George II within an elaborate cartouche; she was built at Woolwich & launched in 1756, served in the Seven Years' War. Includes a 13-line poem within a cartouche at upper left corner: "Rous'd, let the gallant British lions [r]oar/And strike dismay to ev'ry hostile shore ..."

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