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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.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoAmerica: Boston : Printed by E. Russell, for Thomas Bassett, of Dunbarton, (New-Hamp.) ..., [1791]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23268. ^A478749
General noteForty-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."
General noteWith several cuts, including, at head, two rows of coffins bearing the names of the thirty-nine officers killed, and, flanking title, "Maj. Gen. Richard Butler, slain in the battle at Miami-Village, Nov. 4" and "Bloody Indian battle, fought at Miami Village, Nov. 4, 1791."
References Evans 23268
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2612
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23268).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formElegies.

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