defiant song, the Americans hoped to signal that they did not propose to give up. Further reading Swanson, June. David Bushnell and His Turtle" - The Story of America's First Submarine. Atheneum. 1991. David Bushnell: David Bushnell Lefkowitz, Arthur S. Bushnell's Submarine - The Best Kept Secret of the American Revolution. Scholastic Inc. 2006. External links http://www.contemplator.com/america/kegs.html https://www.americanrevolution.org/war_songs/warsongs55.php https://morethannelson.com/the-battle-of-the-kegs-5-january-1778/ Ballads Propaganda in the United States Year of song missing