![[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] [ST. CLAIR'S DEFEAT]. The Following melancholy News came to hand by the Western Post after the Gazette was put to Press...Defeat of the Western Army. New London [Connecticut]: [Timothy Green and Son], 4 o'clock P.M., [15 December 1791].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/NYR/2015_NYR_03750_0207_000(revolutionary_war_st_clairs_defeat_the_following_melancholy_news_came100707).jpg?w=1)
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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] [ST. CLAIR'S DEFEAT]. The Following melancholy News came to hand by the Western Post after the Gazette was put to Press...Defeat of the Western Army. New London [Connecticut]: [Timothy Green and Son], 4 o'clock P.M., [15 December 1791].
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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] [ST. CLAIR'S DEFEAT]. The Following melancholy News came to hand by the Western Post after the Gazette was put to Press...Defeat of the Western Army. New London [Connecticut]: [Timothy Green and Son], 4 o'clock P.M., [15 December 1791].
Broadside 2o (330 x 145 mm). Text printed in a single column. (Minor stains, top of the sheet frayed).
"DEFEAT OF THE WESTERN ARMY": AN UNRECORDED CONNECTICUT GAZETTE HANDBILL EXTRA from the press of Timothy Green, printer of the New-London Gazette since 1763. The broadside is a fine example of the circulation of news in the pre-telegraph era. As the heading explains, the momentous news of St. Clair's defeat at the hand of the Miami Indians arrived just before Green's weekly issue went to press. The report names the officers killed and adds “about 600 privates killed and God only knows many wounded.” Green’s broadside gives a brief narrative of the bloody attack on 6 November; his account was based on a 9 December Philadelphia bulletin; it quoted an "Extract of a Letter from Richmond, December 1." The Richmond report, in turn, is said to have been from a letter from "Mr. Elliot the Contractor" to his wife in Hagerstown. An interesting parallel is drawn between St. Clair's defeat and another famous wilderness massacre: "The loss on this occasion is...said to be nearly equal to Braddock's defeat..."
Broadside 2o (330 x 145 mm). Text printed in a single column. (Minor stains, top of the sheet frayed).
"DEFEAT OF THE WESTERN ARMY": AN UNRECORDED CONNECTICUT GAZETTE HANDBILL EXTRA from the press of Timothy Green, printer of the New-London Gazette since 1763. The broadside is a fine example of the circulation of news in the pre-telegraph era. As the heading explains, the momentous news of St. Clair's defeat at the hand of the Miami Indians arrived just before Green's weekly issue went to press. The report names the officers killed and adds “about 600 privates killed and God only knows many wounded.” Green’s broadside gives a brief narrative of the bloody attack on 6 November; his account was based on a 9 December Philadelphia bulletin; it quoted an "Extract of a Letter from Richmond, December 1." The Richmond report, in turn, is said to have been from a letter from "Mr. Elliot the Contractor" to his wife in Hagerstown. An interesting parallel is drawn between St. Clair's defeat and another famous wilderness massacre: "The loss on this occasion is...said to be nearly equal to Braddock's defeat..."