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jpreface*

THE Author of the Jhlloiving nxork, having for several years desired and expected to see the great e'vents that brought about the American Revolution, i?i a poetical dress, but disappointed in his hopes, he ventured to make the attempt himself; — and if this short essay should prove a stimulousto some one more favoured of the Muses, ivho will undertake the arduous task, and carry it ihro-dgb upon a more extensive scale, he shall think himself so far fortiamte, that his labor has not been in vain. With this introduction (and as far as he knov^s his own heart J divested of cdi vanity as an Author, Poet, or Historian, or whaever you may please to call him~Hc offers this epitome on the AMERICAN WA-R to the candid public, and ushers it into the world as an orphan, without any other patronage than its own merit.