Citation - Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia: 1740.06.12

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Index Entry Dead March [t], drummers practicing, preparing for execution 
Location London 
Citation
PG-P.740.013
12 Jun 1740:11 (600)
London. . .  March 11.  The young drummers of the Foot
Guards were yesterday practising the Dead March which is to
be beat this day, at the execution of the private centinel
who is to be shot in Hide Park.  The prisoner is to be
convey'd by eight o'clock in the morning, from the dungeon
in the Savoy to the Tilt-Yard Guard Room, and is to march
thence on foot, . . . 


Generic Title Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia 
Date 1740.06.12 
Publisher Franklin, B. 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1740 
Bibliography B0035330
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