Title: A genuine detail of the several engagements, positions, and movements of the Royal and American armies: with an accurate account of the blockade of Boston and a plan of the works on Bunker's Hill, at the time it was abandoned by His Majesty's forces, on the seventeenth of March, 1776: in a series of letters to a friend.
Author: Carter, William, Lieutenant in the 40th Regiment of Foot.
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP04086400
CollectionID: CTRG02-B809
PublicationDate: 17840101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
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Collation: 50 p., [1] leaf of plates: plan; 26 cm
