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The Columbian tragedy: Containing a particular and official account of the brave and unfortunate officers and soldiers, who were slain and wounded in the ever-memorable and bloody Indian battle ... Nov. 4, 1791 between two thousand Americans, belonging to the united army, and near five thousand wild Indian savages, at Miami Village, near Fort-Washington, in the Ohio-country ..

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Format:
Book
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 46142.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Butler, Richard, 1743-1791--Portraits.
Butler, Richard.
Butler, Richard, 1743-1791.
Indians of North America--Wars--1790-1794--Poetry.
Indians of North America.
St. Clair's Campaign, 1791--Poetry.
St. Clair's Campaign, 1791.
Indians of North America--Wars.
United States--History, Military.
United States.
History, Military.
Ohio River Valley--History--To 1795.
Ohio River Valley.
History.
Genre:
Broadsides.
Elegies.
Poetry.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (relief cuts)
Place of Publication:
Hartford: : Printed, ..., [1791]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Forty-one numbered stanzas of verse in four columns, with title, "A funeral elegy on the occasion;" first line: Ye friends to men attend the tale.
Preceded by a "List of killed and wounded officers."
With several cuts, including, at head, two rows of coffins bearing the names of the thirty-nine officers killed, and, flanking title, "Major General Richard Butler, slain in the battle at Miami-Village, Nov. 4" and "Bloody Indian battle, fought at Miami-Village, Nov. 4, 1791."
Printed area, including mourning border, measures 48.9 x 38.4 cm.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 46142).
Cited in:
Bristol B7671
Shipton and Mooney 46142
Access Restriction:
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