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Title: Narrative of Mr. John Dodge during his Captivity at Detroit

Author: John Dodge

Annotator: Clarence Monroe Burton

Release Date: August 3, 2010 [EBook #33344]

Language: English

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THE DODGE NARRATIVE, 1780
FACSIMILE REPRINT

_Sixty-three copies printed sixty being for sale_

NARRATIVE
OF
MR. JOHN DODGE
DURING HIS CAPTIVITY
AT DETROIT

REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE FROM THE
SECOND EDITION OF 1780

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE
BY
CLARENCE MONROE BURTON

[Illustration]

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
THE TORCH PRESS
NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE

THE DODGE NARRATIVE

The narrative of John Dodge is one of the records of frontier life
during the period of the American Revolution that displays the intense
feeling of hatred and unfairness evinced by the British soldiers to the
American rebels. It was written and published during the time of the
greatest excitement in the West--the scene of the Narrative--and is
historically valuable because of being contemporary with the events in
question.

It was considered of great importance at the time of its first
appearance, having been at once reprinted in England[1] and passed
through at least three editions in America.[2]

In other writings published in England in 1779, appear the first public
notice of the cruelties and gross irregularities in t