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Benedict Arnold at Quebec... Much more...
Benedict Arnold at Quebec... Much more...
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January 27, 1776
THE PENNSYLVANIA LEDGER, Philadelphia, Jan. 27, 1776
* Benedict Arnold at Quebec, Canada
* Rare Revolutionary War era title
* Tory issue from Pennsylvania
* Great year to have (1776)
The front page has a full column headed: "General Hospital at Cambridge" signed in type by John Morgan, Director-General of the Continental Hospital & chief Physician to the Army, in which he complains of the lack of supplies & other necessary items for managing a hospital.
Page 3 has a nice report beginning: "The last letters from Canada bring an account of an unsuccessful attempt made to gain possession of Quebec by storm on the 31st of December...", conducted by Richard Montgomery, Benedict Arnold and others. Portions of the detailed text include: "...In the mean while, colonel Arnold, at the head of about 350 of those brave troops (who with unparalleled fatigue had penetrated Canada under his command) & Captain Lamb's company of artillery had passed through St. Roques, & approached near a two gun battery, picketed in without being discovered. This he attacked & though it was well defended for about an hour, carried it with the loss of a number of men. In this attack Colonel Arnold had the misfortune to have his leg splintered by a shot & was obliged to be carried to the hospital. After gaining the battery his detachment passed on to a second barrier which they took possession of. By this time the enemy, relieve from the other attacks by our troops being drawn off, directed their whole force against this detachment & a party, sallying out from Palace-gate, attacked them in the rear. These brave men sustained the force of the whole garrison for three hours, but finding themselves hemmed in with no hopes of relief, they were obliged to yield to numbers & the advantageous situation the garrison had over them...Every possible mark of distinction was shewn to the corpse of General Montgomery who was interred in Quebec the second of January."
A page 2 item includes: "Sir Peter Parker...is appointed to command his Majesty's ship Bristol...and is to be second in command at Boston, in America, with a broad pendant." On the same page is: "The prisoners in Newgate are much enraged with the Americans for refusing to receive any more transports from England; they complain they are greater sufferers by the American dispute than any other of his Majesty's subjects; for, say they, if we are sent to the colonies, the American vow they will hang us if we land, & our countrymen will hang us if we return."
Pg. 3 has a nice advertisement for: "COMMON SENSE; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America..." with more.
Great to have a newspaper from Philadelphia dated 1776.
Four pages, Royal coat-of-arms in the masthead, light damp staining near the bottom, some numeric notations in the margins next to ads (this was the editor's copy), nice condition. This identical issue was sold by another dealer for $1,150.
Category: Revolutionary War
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