Horrid massacre at Dartmoor Prison, England : Where the unarmed American prisoners of war were wantonly fired upon by the guard, under the command of the prison turn-key, the blood thirsty Shorland [i.e., Shortland]; seven were killed, and about fifty wounded, (several mortally,) without any provocation on the part of our unfortunate American citizens!.

Other author/creator	Waddell, John Hunter. Dartmoor massacre.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Boston] : [Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun], [1815]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations ; 49 x 29 cm
Supplemental Content	Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Prisoners of war--United States. Prisoners of war--Great Britain. Prisons--Poetry. Massacres--England --Dartmoor --Poetry. United States--History --War of 1812 --Prisoners and prisons. United States--History --War of 1812 --Poetry.

Series	Early American imprints. Second series no. 34955. ^A575643
General note	Verse of 114 lines; first line: Now war is o'er and peace is come to greet our happy land.
General note	Apparently the first of three issues filmed by Readex Microprint for Shaw & Shoemaker 34955. In this issue, without imprint, Shortland's name is spelled incorrectly. The second issue, also without imprint, has Shortland's name spelled correctly, and the third issue includes the imprint, "Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. Milk-Street, Boston."
General note	Variant of: The Dartmoor massacre, transposed in verse, from the New-York commercial advertiser, of the 6th of June last, and the Boston papers, of the same month. / By I.H. [i.e., John Hunter] Waddell. ... Boston: 1815.
General note	Text in two columns; printed area, including mourning border, measures 45.3 x 25.8 cm.
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 34955
References	Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 1298
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. 34955).
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Poems 1815.

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