The death of General Wolf.
Subtitle: A song
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49291
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1775
Place of publication: [United States
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Wolfe, James, -- 1727-1759 -- Poetry; Québec Campaign, 1759 -- Songs and music; Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry; Songs and music
Notes: Song in four stanzas; first line: In a mouldering cave, a wretched retreat

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, 1974, p. 15, 30

Use of the long "s" suggests imprint date before 1810

Printed area measures 21.1 x 8.0 cm

Not in Evans or Bristol

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 1156

Wegelin, O.  Amer. poetry, 535

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