Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1755.04.21

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Index Entry Band of music, in Algiers, of Dey, played for mutinous soldiers 
Location Algiers 
Citation
NYGWPB.755.013
21 Apr 1755:21, 22 (638)
From the London Gazette.  Algier, Dec. 17.  On the 11th
instant, about eight o'clock in the morning, the Dey was
assassinated in his palace, and the grand treasurer mortally
wounded, by six soldiers . . .  He bid them order the Day's
band of musick (who were there) to play, and the drums to
beat; which the divan were forced to order. . .


Generic Title New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy 
Date 1755.04.21 
Publisher Parker, J., and W. Weyman 
City, State New York, NY 
Year 1755 
Bibliography B0026347
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