Poetical remarks upon the fight at the Boston Light-House : which happen’d between a party of troops belonging to the United Colonies, commanded by Major Tupper, and a number of regulars. Having wrote some poems on the military opperations [sic] in America this year, I was requested among the rest to write one on the taking and demolishing the Light-House ... So I rest a friend, E.R.

Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1775-1783

Chelmsford [Mass.]

Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, where may be had verses by the groze dozen or single

1775-07-31
M,DCCLXXV. [1775]

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 35 x 20 cm

Major Benjamin Tupper led a force of 300 men to defeat the British guard at the Boston Lighhouse on July 31, 1775. Verse in twenty-six stanzas; first line: Brave valient [sic] soldiers of America. Text in two columns surrounded by border of printers’ ornaments; relief cut of the battle (Reilly 1134). Printed in two columns. New-York Historical copy closely trimmed, torn, with some loss of imprint and ornamental border. References: Evans 14227; Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1923; Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 323.

Broadsides -- SY1775 no.104
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Coverly, Nathaniel, 1744?-1816

Boston (Mass.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Poetry
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Poetry
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