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The death of General Montgomery, at the siege of Quebec. A tragedy. With an ode, in honour of the Pennsylvania militia, and the small band of regular continental troops, who sustained the campaign, in the depth of winter, January, 1777, and repulsed the British forces from the banks of the Delaware / By the author of a dramatic piece, on the battle of Bunker's-Hill ; To which are added, elegiac pieces, commemorative of distinguished characters.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brackenridge, H. H. (Hugh Henry), 1748-1816.
- Standardized Title:
- Death of General Montgomery
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Montgomery, Richard, 1738-1775.
- Montgomery, Richard.
- History.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Drama.
- United States.
- Québec--Québec.
- Québec (Québec)--History--Siege, 1775-1776--Drama.
- Québec (Québec).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, 1777.
- Notes:
- Attributed to Hugh Henry Brackenridge in BAL.
- Prologue, p. [82-83], signed: J.P. [i.e., John Parke].
- Two states of the frontispiece noted. In one (state A), the area at lower left is blank, and there is a small white cloud above the ghost of General Wolfe. In the other (state B), the area at lower left has a brickwork pattern, and the cloud has been removed.
- Signatures: pi⁴ A-I⁴ [K]².
- Error in paging: p. 78 misnumbered 68.
- "Dramatis Personae": p. [84]
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has frontispiece (state A) wanting, supplied in photostat.
- Culture Class Collection copy has underlines and corrections written in ms.
- Culture Class Collection copy is first state: note on the frontispiece set in five paragraphs; p. [5] last line ... admiraion for admiration; p. [6], line 5 ... Pennsylvaniay for Pennsylvania.--Cf. BAL
- Cited in:
- Evans, 15248
- BAL, 1295
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3527
- Hill, F.P. Amer. plays, 23
- Contains:
- Whitehead, William, 1715-1785. Ode for the New-Year, 1776.
- OCLC:
- 207646374
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