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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09080 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1776 |
| Title | The Pennsylvania Evening Post |
| Date | 7 May 1776 |
| Document Type | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Content Description | Relaying news from a Dublin paper of a British fleet set to sail in April: "there will be five debarkations...one at Quebec, one at New-York, one in New-England, and two to the southward." Letter from Cork, describing Col. Ethan Allen and his fellow prisoners' generous treatment by the Irish. Letter from Gen. Arnold: "we labor under almost as many difficulties as the Israelites did of old, obliged to make brick without straw...we have near five feet snow on the ground...four hundred sick and wounded in hospitals." Skirmish and privateer news from up and down the Atlantic. (GLC 3235 was lacking from a nearly complete 1776 run.) |
| Subjects | Canada Navy Prisoner of War Global History and Civics Judaism Injury or Wound Military History Military Camp Privateering |
| Place written | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Theme | Foreign Affairs; Naval & Maritime |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |