memoir

An old tragedy of Jackson township, Lebanon county, Pa. posthumous paper

Ezra Light Grumbine (1845–1923), 1925

Named on the page for Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

machine-read Machine-read (OCR) from a scanned book at the Internet Archive: expect misread words and names. The scan itself is at the library.

draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.

Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.

13 September 1759

Battle of the Plains of Abraham

AN OLD TRAGEDY OF JACKSON TOWNSHIP 47
The ravages of the F. & I. War were committed not only in New England and Virginia, but also in Pennsyl- vania, which State saw not so many battles, but suffered more from stealthy attacks and private outrages. Our State cannot record victories like the Capture’ of Crown Point, the Storming of Ticonderoga, or the Assault on Quebec. The devastation of Acadia gave Longfellow the theme of his immortal poem, “Evangeline: :”

AN OLD TRAGEDY OF JACKSON TOWNSHIP 47
colonies in America. “New France”** had a line of sixty . forts, extending from Quebec to New Orleans. The red meh generally sided with the French.

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