The American hero
Subtitle: Made on the Battle of Bunker-Hill, and the burning of Charlestown
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42911
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Poetry; Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775
Other titles: Why should vain mortals tremble.
Notes: Verse in fifteen stanzas; first lines: Why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of death and destruction in the field of battle.

By Nathaniel Niles. Cf. Evans 14349.

American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 132, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810. Cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 23.0 x 16.3 cm.

Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

Bristol B4083

Shipton & Mooney 42911

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1787

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2955

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 5

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 487