Particulars of the capture of the ship Olive Branch, laden with a cargo of cannon and arms : the property of Major General Ira Allen, destined for supplying the militia of Vermont, and captured by His Britannic Majesty's ship of war Audacious; : together with the proceedings and evidence before the High Court of Admiralty and Appeal, in Great Britain, and an account of his imprisonment in France, and persecutions by a conspiracy of the two hemispheres: : with an appendix, proposing a ship canal, from Lake Champlain, to the river St. Lawrence--the evacuation of Ticonderoga, and events of the war in 1777--truce in 1780, to the end of the war--and a narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's captivity, from 1775 to 1778 - ECU Libraries Catalog

Particulars of the capture of the ship Olive Branch, laden with a cargo of cannon and arms : the property of Major General Ira Allen, destined for supplying the militia of Vermont, and captured by His Britannic Majesty's ship of war Audacious; : together with the proceedings and evidence before the High Court of Admiralty and Appeal, in Great Britain, and an account of his imprisonment in France, and persecutions by a conspiracy of the two hemispheres: : with an appendix, proposing a ship canal, from Lake Champlain, to the river St. Lawrence--the evacuation of Ticonderoga, and events of the war in 1777--truce in 1780, to the end of the war--and a narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's captivity, from 1775 to 1778. / By Ira Allen, of Vermont, the claimant in this cause. ; Volume II.

Author/creator	Allen, Ira, 1751-1814
Included Work	Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789 Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's captivity.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Printed for the author, 1805. (Copy right secured.)
Description	xxx, 2 unnumbered pages, 551 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm
Supplemental Content	Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789. Olive Branch (Ship) Seizure of vessels and cargoes. Canals--New York (State) Vermont--History. United States--Foreign relations --Great Britain. Great Britain--Foreign relations --United States. United States--History --Revolution, 1775-1783.

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Series	Early American imprints. Second series no. 7852. ^A575643
General note	Caption title: Narrative of the transactions relative to the capture of the American ship, Olive Branch.
General note	"In pursuance of an engagement to publish the cause of the Olive Branch, 368 pages were printed, and some books distributed in August 1804, when the publication was stopped for want of essential documents ... That the whole cause might be seen in one volume, the contents of the first including the evidence and proceedings in court, (except the arguments of counsel, before Judge Marriot ...) are contained in the seven first chapters of this volume. ..."--Introduction on special emergency, p. [iii]-iv.
General note	For a discussion of Allen's publications on the capture of the Olive Branch, including "Particulars of the capture of the ship Olive Branch ... Vol. I. London: Printed by J.W. Myers, 1798," and "Narrative of the transactions relative to the capture of the American ship, Olive Branch. Philadelphia, 1804" (Shaw & Shoemaker 5684), see Gilman, Marcus D. The bibliography of Vermont, 1897, p. 8.
General note	"A narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's captivity ... Philadelphia: Printed for the author. 1799."--p. [471]-551, with separate title page.
General note	"Errata."--p. [552].
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 7852
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 9098
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 7852).
Other title	Narrative of the transactions relative to the capture of the American ship, Olive Branch.

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