Cartoon on the English losses in the battle with America (1), 1778, First cartoon on the English losses in the battle with America in 1778. The English trade represented by a dairy cow whose horns are sawed off by the American Congress and which is taken by a Dutchman milked. A Frenchman and a Spaniard also want the milk. In the background the English ship Eagle (17 September 1778), captured and dismantled by the Americans, stranded near Philadelphia. In the foreground a dog pees on the sleeping British lion, accompanied by an Englishman in sackcloth wringing his hands. In the caption the

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