Monody on Major Andrè.

by Miss Seward. Author of the Elegy

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Second edition same year as the first . vi, 47, 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Crimson cloth, t.e.g. Library marks. VG. Adams 81-65b; Sabin 79478. Item #302215 In the Fall of 1780 the young and dashing British officer, John Andrè, was arrested in civilian clothes, with a false passport, bearing reports from Benedict Arnold to General Henry Clinton on the vulnerabilities of the fort at West Point. His execution as

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