Particulars of the capture of the ship Olive Branch : laden with a cargo of cannon and arms : the property of Major General Ira Allen, destined for supplying the militia of Vermont, and captured by His Britannic Majesty's ship of war Audacious : together with the proceedings and evidence before the High court of admiralty and appeal, in Great Britain, and an account of his imprisonment in France, and persecutions by a conspiracy of the two hemispheres : with an appendix, proposing a ship canal, from lake Champlain, to the river St. Lawrence ... the evacuation of Ticonderoga, and events of the war in 1777 ... truce in 1780, to the end of the war ... and a Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's captivity, from 1775 to 1778
1805
L2006F158 1805
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Title
Particulars of the capture of the ship Olive Branch : laden with a cargo of cannon and arms : the property of Major General Ira Allen, destined for supplying the militia of Vermont, and captured by His Britannic Majesty's ship of war Audacious : together with the proceedings and evidence before the High court of admiralty and appeal, in Great Britain, and an account of his imprisonment in France, and persecutions by a conspiracy of the two hemispheres : with an appendix, proposing a ship canal, from lake Champlain, to the river St. Lawrence ... the evacuation of Ticonderoga, and events of the war in 1777 ... truce in 1780, to the end of the war ... and a Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's captivity, from 1775 to 1778
Variant Title
Narrative of the transactions relative to the campture of the American ship, Olive Branch|Ship Olive Branch
Published
Philadelphia Printed for the author 1805
Description
xxx, 551, [1] p. ; 20 cm
Call Number
L2006F158 1805
System Control No.
(OCoLC)01627028
Note
Spine title: Ship Olive Branch
"Volume II."
This edition, called v. 2, is a complete work with a summary of v. 1 published at London in 1798; p.1-368 of this edition were first published by the author at Philadelphia in 1804 without t.p. but with caption title: "Narrative of the transactions relative to the campture of the American ship, Olive Branch."
Author, brother of Ethan Allen, was one of the "Green Mountain Boys" and Vermont politician; in 1795 he bought arms to supply the Vermont militia, but his ship, Olive Branch, was captured by the British in Nov. 1796
"Ticonderoga evacuated": p. 459-470; "A narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's captivity," Philadelphia, 1799 with separate title: p. [471]-534 (cataloged separately)
Errata: p. [552]
"Volume II."
This edition, called v. 2, is a complete work with a summary of v. 1 published at London in 1798; p.1-368 of this edition were first published by the author at Philadelphia in 1804 without t.p. but with caption title: "Narrative of the transactions relative to the campture of the American ship, Olive Branch."
Author, brother of Ethan Allen, was one of the "Green Mountain Boys" and Vermont politician; in 1795 he bought arms to supply the Vermont militia, but his ship, Olive Branch, was captured by the British in Nov. 1796
"Ticonderoga evacuated": p. 459-470; "A narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's captivity," Philadelphia, 1799 with separate title: p. [471]-534 (cataloged separately)
Errata: p. [552]
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Sabin 821
Shaw/Shoemaker 7852
Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed) A143
Shaw/Shoemaker 7852
Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed) A143
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