Intro to Chapter VII. Campaign of 1781

Joseph Plumb Martin 1760 (Becket, MA) – 1850 (Stockton Springs, ME)



I saw the plundering British bands,
Invade the fair Virginian lands.
I saw great WASHINGTON advance
With Americans and troops of France;
I saw the haughty Britons yield,
And stack their muskets on the field.

About this poem

Six years into the skirmish for independence from England and with winter approaching, "the arm of British power in America" had been dislocated with the capture of Cornwallis and his acolytes but Martin's excursions were yet to conclude.

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Scheme AABBCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 207
Words 39
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

Joseph Plumb Martin

Joseph Plumb Martin's claim to fame was his some 7 years spent serving in the American Revolutionary War starting at the age of 15 and his story, "A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier Interspersed with Anecdotes of Incidents That Occurred Within His Own Observation," (as he originally titled and published it in 1830, AKA Private Yankee Doodle). Though his notoriety is mostly posthumous, as this work went largely undiscovered until the 1950's, historians since have marveled it as a compelling memoir on war's hardships (though it includes some embellishments, as it is known Martin could not have been aware or privy to certain other wartime developments) and its vivid account of a Continental soldier's life during that conflict. Martin settled in Maine after the war and served as a town clerk and justice of the peace. more…

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