Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) The Pennsylvania Evening Post. 4 pages, 10 1/4 x 8 inches, on one sheet; disbound. Philadelphia, 17 October 1775
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Features a first account of the capture of Ethan Allen at the Battle of Longue-Point: "Col. Eathen Allen, prompted by ambition, had imprudently without orders crossed over from Longale with thirty of his own men and fifty Canadians, in order to get possession of Montreal. . . . Col. Allen and two or three of his friends were taken prisoners."