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 de St. Clair, Arthur - 1812

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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 .

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… Leer más