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NHG-P.777.006
11 Feb 1777:41 (38)
Boston. January 30. On the Hessian standards, taken at
Trenton, were engraved these words:--Nescit Pericula, a
fearlessness of danger, which was not displayed in the
battle where the standards were surrendered to the American
arms, and which hath drawn on the timed Hessian, and his
haunting motto, the following epigram:
The man who submits, without striking a blow,
May be said, in a sense, no danger to know:
I pray then, what harm, by the humble submission,
At Trenton was done to the standard of Hessian?
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