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A NARRATIVE OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDIANS, IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE, WAS CONDUCTED, UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL ST. CLAIR, TOGETHER WITH HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATEMENTS OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND THE QUARTER MASTER GENERAL, RELATIVE THERETO, AND THE REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEES APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE CAUSES OF THE FAILURE THEREOF: TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS by [St. Clair, Arthur] - 1812
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A NARRATIVE OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDIANS, IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE, WAS CONDUCTED, UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL ST. CLAIR, TOGETHER WITH HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATEMENTS OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND THE QUARTER MASTER GENERAL, RELATIVE THERETO, AND THE REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEES APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE CAUSES OF THE FAILURE THEREOF: TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS
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Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1812. xix, [1 blank], [20- subscribers and errata page], [2 blank], [4- subscribers], 273pp. Half green morocco with marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine and raised bands, marbled pastedowns and fore-edge. Binding a bit rubbed. Lightly tanned, light and widely scattered foxing. Bookplate of Archibald Rogers. Very Good.
General St. Clair's "attempt to vindicate his surprise and rout by the Indians" [Howes]. "His narrative, of the terrible defeat and slaughter, of eight hundred soldiers by the Ohio Indians...All of St. Clair's voluminous defense is rendered nugatory and futile by the passionate ejaculations of Washington, when Major Denny called him from a dinner-party, to announce defeat. Overcome with surprise and indignation, Washington cursed the beaten general with exceeding fervor, adding, 'Did not my last words warn him against a surprise'." [Field].
"Lists of subscribers are located in different parts of the book in different printings" [OCLC]. Jane Aitken, the printer, was a subscriber, as were several Biddles, Henry Clay, William Crawford, William Duane, William Findley, Asa Fitch, and other notables.
Howes S24aa. Graff 3639. Field 1349. 23 Decker 348.
General St. Clair's "attempt to vindicate his surprise and rout by the Indians" [Howes]. "His narrative, of the terrible defeat and slaughter, of eight hundred soldiers by the Ohio Indians...All of St. Clair's voluminous defense is rendered nugatory and futile by the passionate ejaculations of Washington, when Major Denny called him from a dinner-party, to announce defeat. Overcome with surprise and indignation, Washington cursed the beaten general with exceeding fervor, adding, 'Did not my last words warn him against a surprise'." [Field].
"Lists of subscribers are located in different parts of the book in different printings" [OCLC]. Jane Aitken, the printer, was a subscriber, as were several Biddles, Henry Clay, William Crawford, William Duane, William Findley, Asa Fitch, and other notables.
Howes S24aa. Graff 3639. Field 1349. 23 Decker 348.
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A Narrative of the Manner in Which the Campaign Against the Indians, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-One, Was Conducted, Under the Command of Major General St. Clair,: Together With His Observations On the Statements Of the Secretary Of
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A Narrative of the Manner in which the Campaign against the Indians, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-One, Was Conducted, under the Command of Major General St. Clair, together with His Observations on the Statements of the Secretary of War and the Quarter Master General, Relative Thereto, and the Reports of the Committees Appointed to Inquire into the Causes of the Failure Thereof: Taken from the Files of the House of Representatives in Congress
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Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1812. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Amateur repair - new cloth laid over most of boards, free endpapers affixed to paste-downs. Edges of boards and a few pages rubbed. A good candidate for restoration - the original cloth spine appears intact beneath the repair, the boards are original and only marred by a small handwritten label on the front. 1812 Hard Cover. xix, [21], 273, [1] pp. 4to. Includes twenty pages of subscribers, providing an interesting glimpse at some of the well read citizenry of the day. Howes S-24: "Attempts to vindicate his surprise and rout by Ohio Indians." Sabin 75020: "A narrative of the terrible defeat and slaughter of eight hundred soldiers by the Ohio Indians.
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A Narrative of the Manner in Which the Campaign Against the Indians, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-One, Was Conducted under the Comman of Major General St. Clair
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Jane Aitken. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1812. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover, xix, (blank) 16 pages subscriber names, errata, (subscriber names) (2 page blank) 4 p. Additional list, 273 p. Rebound: black spine over marbeled boards, tight, pages clean and unfoxed, uncut pages, covers unworn and bright. The narrative of St Clair against hostile Indians in the northwest territory in which he was defeated. Ohio Indians, Miami, later defeated by mad Anthony Wayne. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 273pp pages .
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A NARRATIVE OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDIANS...WAS CONDUCTED...TOGETHER WITH HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATEMENTS OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, AND THE QUARTER MASTER GENERAL...AND THE REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEES APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE CAUSES OF THE FAILURE THEREOF...
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Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1812.. xix,[1],[22],273pp. Half title. Contemporary plain boards. Spine largely perished, front board nearly detached. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper and titlepage. Later advertisement pasted to rear free endpaper, 1866 child's diploma in music on rear pastedown. About very good, untrimmed. Without the extended list of subscribers not found with all copies. The first edition of General St. Clair's decades-later defense of his staggering defeat on the American frontier in 1791, as well as his response to the extended congressional investigation that followed it. In the summer and fall of that year, St. Clair and his admittedly under-prepared force of nearly two thousand men were ground down to barely over a thousand, which walked straight into an ambush on the Wabash River. St. Clair's losses at the hands of the Western Confederacy of native tribes were almost complete, with seventy percent of the force killed and only twenty-four of the…
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