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The death of General Montgomery, [electronic resource] : 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. [Two lines from Pitt's Virgil].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brackenridge, H. H. (Hugh Henry), 1748-1816.
- Parke, John, 1754-1789., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Drama.
- United States.
- Québec (Québec)--History--Siege, 1775-1776--Drama.
- Québec (Québec).
- Montgomery, Richard, 1738-1775.
- Montgomery, Richard.
- Genre:
- Plays -- 1777.
- Songs.
- Poems -- 1777.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (79,[5]p., [1]leaf of plates ) ill., ;
- Other Title:
- Death of General Montgomery,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, next door to St. Paul's Church, M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
- Notes:
- Attributed to Hugh Henry Brackenridge in the Dictionary of American biography.
- Prologue, p. [82-83], by signed: J.P. [i.e., John Parke?].
- Frontispiece signed: N.G. inv. Norman, sc.
- Dedicated to Thomas Mifflin.
- Three states noted in BAL, which see. For further discussion of this work see: Blanck, Jacob. "Brackenridge's Death of General Montgomery." Harvard Library Bulletin VII (1953): 357-361.
- Two states of the frontispiece noted. In one, the area at lower left is blank, and there is a small white cloud above the ghost of General Wolfe. In the other, the area at lower left has a brickwork pattern, and the cloud has been removed.
- Error in paging: p. 78 misnumbered 68.
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 15248
- BAL, 1296
- Hill, F. P. Amer. plays, 23
- English Short Title Catalog, W19382.
- OCLC:
- 511055395
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