(WAR OF 1812) | Northern Centinel-Extra, Burlington, June 25, 1812. By the politeness of a Gentleman, who arrived in town this morning from New York, we are favored with the following, from the Morning Post....Extra. New York, Saturday Morning, June 20, 10 o'clock. Important. War Against Great Britain. [Burlington, Vermont: 1812]

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(WAR OF 1812)

Northern Centinel-Extra, Burlington, June 25, 1812. By the politeness of a Gentleman, who arrived in town this morning from New York, we are favored with the following, from the Morning Post....Extra. New York, Saturday Morning, June 20, 10 o'clock. Important. War Against Great Britain. [Burlington, Vermont: 1812]

Printed broadside (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 215 x 163 mm). Signed in type by Joseph Bloomfield ("Gen. Bloomfield); light stains. Matted, framed, and glazed. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot.

A rare broadside announcing the Declaration of War in 1812 

"The die is cast....the Senate of the United have this day decided the question after ten days debate, by a majority of 19 to 13....WAR therefore is inevitable..."

At the beginning of the War of 1812, Joseph Bloomfield—then governor of New Jersey—was commissioned as a brigadier general in the United States Army, and served on the United States-Canada border until 15 June 1815. For the entire war, Burlington, Vermont, located on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, a mere 40 miles south of the border with British-held Canada, hosted an extensive American military base. 

Our records locate no other copy of this broadside having been offered at auction.