Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
History of the civil war in America : vol. I, comprehending the campaigns of 1775, 1776 and 1777 / by an officer of the army.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.444
1081.463
2014-0745N
Identifier
ark:/88435/0r967d369
Publisher
London : Printed for T. Payne and Sons, 1780.
Language
English
Date Created
1780
Extent
413 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Provenance
Princeton copy 3 Lapidus copy has crest on spine of John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira (1720-1793).
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 3 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC T45612
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
No other vols. published.
Also ascribed to Captain John Hall--cf. Howes, U.S.iana.
Sabin 29740.
Copy 2. Contains variant map. In fold-down box.
Author "said to be Capt. Hall of General Howe's regiment". cf. Monthly review, London, 1781, v. 64.
Authorship ascribed by Sabin and others to Captain Hall. Sales catalogue of Wm. H. Robinson (#18, 1927, item 18) gives the author as Capt. William Cornwallis Hall, 28th regiment of foot. Library of Congress first official catalogue gave author as John Hall.
No Capt. John Hall found in British army lists, 1775-1781. Lieut. William Cornwallis Hall was sent to America in 1776.

Discovery Information

Subject
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783—Campaigns
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783—Personal narratives, British

Physical Characteristics

File Count
441

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/31e8a2d1-ade6-4063-ba4f-83ccf0d9a49a/manifest