An elegiac poem
By: Composed by F-----n H-----y, a citizen of Boston, ; and published ... as a sacred testimony of gratitude and regard to the immortal memory of those brave and gallant heroes, who fell gloriously fighting for their country in the bloody Indian battle at Miami, near Fort-Washington, in the Ohio-country, Nov. 4, 1791 ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 46186
Publisher: Printed by Ezekiel Russell
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of North America; Wars; Poetry; St. Clair's Campaign, 1791; Military History; History
Other titles: Hark! while the thunders roar aloud.
Notes: Verse in fourteen numbered stanzas; first line: Hark! while the thunders roar aloud.

Included in Miscellaneous pieces, in verse, by Freeman Hearsey [1805?], Shaw 50549, with title: On the battle at the Ohio.

With relief cuts depicting "The bloody battle, fought in Nov. 1790, by Gen. Harmar;" "Bloody Indian battle at Miami, 1791;" "The gallant and intrepid Major Butler, (brother to the unfortunate general) ..." and "Missasago, or chief warrior, who was commander of the Indian army at the late bloody and desperate battle." Ezekiel Russell, of Boston, used the cut of Major Butler in his almanacs, and the scenes of the battle at Miami in his edition of the Columbian tragedy (Evans 23268).

Text in two columns; printed area measures 39.4 x 23.1 cm.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Bristol B7723

Shipton & Mooney 46186