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Brackenridge, Hugh Henry [Author] ; N. G [Other]; Norman, John [Engraver]; Norman, John [Other]; Parke, John [Other]; Bell, Robert [Printer]; Bell, Robert [Other]; Mifflin, Thomas [Dedicatee]; Mifflin, Thomas [Other]; Whitehead, William [Other] Riviere & Son

The death of General Montgomery

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: 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. [Two lines from Pitt's Virgil]
  • Contributor: Brackenridge, Hugh Henry [Author]; N. G [Other]; Norman, John [Other]; Parke, John [Other]; Parke, John [Other]; Bell, Robert [Other]; Mifflin, Thomas [Other]; Whitehead, William [Other]
  • Corporation: Riviere & Son
  • Published: Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, next door to St. Paul's Church, M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
    Online-Ausg., Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (79,[5]p., [1]leaf of plates); ill; 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Montgomery, Richard 1738-1775 ; Québec (Québec) History Siege, 1775-1776 Drama ; United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Drama
  • Reproduction series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Attributed to Hugh Henry Brackenridge in the Dictionary of American biography
    BAL, 1296
    Dedicated to Thomas Mifflin
    English Short Title Catalog, W19382
    Error in paging: p. 78 misnumbered 68
    Evans, 15248
    Frontispiece signed: N.G. inv. Norman, sc
    Hill, F. P. Amer. plays, 23
    Prologue, p. [82-83], by signed: J.P. [i.e., John Parke?]
    Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
    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