An elegiac poem / Composed by F-----n H-----y, a citizen of Boston, ; and published ... as a sacred testimony of gratitude and regard to the immortal memory of those brave and gallant heroes, who fell gloriously fighting for their country in the bloody Indian battle at Miami, near Fort-Washington, in the Ohio-country, Nov. 4, 1791.

Author/creator Hearsey, Freeman
Format Microform
Publication Info[Boston] : [Printed by Ezekiel Russell], [1791?]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 44 x 28 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 46186
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 46186. ^A478749
General noteVerse in fourteen numbered stanzas; first line: Hark! while the thunders roar aloud.
General noteIncluded in Miscellaneous pieces, in verse, by Freeman Hearsey [1805?], Shaw 50549, with title: On the battle at the Ohio.
General noteWith relief cuts depicting "The bloody battle, fought in Nov. 1790, by Gen. Harmar;" "Bloody Indian battle at Miami, 1791;" "The gallant and intrepid Major Butler, (brother to the unfortunate general) ..." and "Missasago, or chief warrior, who was commander of the Indian army at the late bloody and desperate battle." Ezekiel Russell, of Boston, used the cut of Major Butler in his almanacs, and the scenes of the battle at Miami in his edition of the Columbian tragedy (Evans 23268).
General noteText in two columns; printed area measures 39.4 x 23.1 cm.
General noteNot in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
References Bristol B7723
References Shipton & Mooney 46186
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 46186).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formElegies.
Other titleHark! while the thunders roar aloud.

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