Poetical remarks upon the fight at the Boston Light-House : which happen'd between a party of troops belonging to the United Colonies, commanded by Major Tupper, and a number of regulars. : Having wrote some poems on the military opperations in America this year, I was requested among the rest to write one on the taking and demolishing the light-house ... So I rest a friend, E.R.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Rich, Elisha, 1740-1804?

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14427.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Poetry.

United States.

History.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns.

Genre:

Poetry.

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1775.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 31+ x 17 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Chelmsford [Mass.]: : Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, where may be had verses by the groze dozen or single., M,DCCLXXV. [1775]

Notes:

Verse in twenty-six stanzas; first line: Brave valient [sic] soldiers of America.

Text in two columns surrounded by border of printers' ornaments; relief cut of the battle (Reilly 1134).

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14427).

Cited in:

Evans 14427

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1923

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 323

OCLC:

55835271