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An impartial history of the present war in America : containing an account of its rise and progress, the political springs thereof, with its various successes and disappointments on both sides. Volume 1

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An impartial history of the present war in America : containing an account of its rise and progress, the political springs thereof, with its various successes and disappointments on both sides. Volume 1

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iv, [5]-573, [1] pages, [11] leaves of plates : 1 map, 10 ports. ; 22 cm (8vo)

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An impartial history of the present war in America : containing an account of its rise and progress, the political springs thereof, with its various successes and disappointments on both sides. Newcastle Upon Tyne : Printed for T. Robson, Head of the Groat-Market, R. Baldwin, No. 47 Pater-Noster-Row, N. Frobisher, York, C. Elliot, Edinburgh, and Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow.

Rockefeller Library lacks volume 3.

"The third volume ends abruptly at p. 332, and is of extreme scarcity."--Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 12, p. 493-4. "A third volume was published ... but this volume is unfinished ending abruptly at p. 252."--A.R. Corns, Bibl. of unfinished books, p. 163.

Like no less than six other contemporary histories of the revolution, this work was chiefly plagarized from "The Annual register," London. cf. Some pseudo histories of the American revolution. By O.G. Libby (Wisconsin academy of sciences, arts and letters. Madison, 1900. v. 13, pt. I, p. 419-425).

Reproduced in An impartial history of the war in America, Boston, 1781-82.

Some engraved portraits by Robert Pollard.

Map: Plan of the Town of Boston with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of Charleston the 17th of June 1775.

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Murray, James, 1732-1782, “An impartial history of the present war in America : containing an account of its rise and progress, the political springs thereof, with its various successes and disappointments on both sides. Volume 1,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed August 15, 2026, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/3977.