The death of the brave General Wolfe
Contributors: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49274
Publisher: Printed by Ezekiel Russell
Published: 1775
Place of publication: [Massachusetts
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Wolfe, James, -- 1727-1759 -- Poetry; Québec Campaign, 1759 -- Poetry; Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Work titles: Death of General Wolfe
Notes: Verse in ten stanzas; first line: Cheer up you young men all, let nothing fright you

Followed by: The death of General Wolf. A song; first line: In a mould'ring cave, a wretched retreat

The second song was written by Thomas Paine between 1768 and 1774, and first printed in America in the March, 1775 issue of the Pennsylvania magazine. Cf. Hawke, David Freeman. Paine. New York, 1794, p. 15, 30

With two relief cuts. Cut at head of first column is identified as being used by Ezekiel Russell to illustrate an unrecorded broadside song entitled The Excellency of nothing [Boston: between 1781 and 1797]. Russell's printing office was located at Salem, Mass., in 1775 and 1776, at Danvers, Mass., from 1777 to 1781, and at Boston from 1781 to 1797

Text in two columns; printed area measures 26.2 x 18.2 cm

Not in Evans or Bristol

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 1160

Wegelin, O.  Amer. poetry, 539

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49274)