Search Results: a narrative of the manner in by st clair arthur

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Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1812.. xix,[1],[22],273pp. Half title. Contemporary plain boards. Spine largely perished, front board nearly detached. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper and titlepage. Later advertisement pasted to rear free endpaper, 1866 child's diploma in music on rear pastedown. About very good, untrimmed. Without the extended list of subscribers not found with all copies. The first edition of General St. Clair's decades-later defense of his staggering defeat on the American frontier in 1791, as well as his response to the extended congressional investigation that followed it. In the summer and fall of that year, St. Clair and his admittedly under-prepared force of nearly two thousand men were ground down to barely over a thousand, which walked straight into an ambush on the Wabash River. St. Clair's losses at the hands of the Western Confederacy of native tribes were almost complete, with seventy percent of the force killed and only twenty-four of the… Read More