The Burial of Lord Viscount Howe

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Excerpt from The Burial of Lord Viscount Howe: Killed in the French and Indian War, July 6, 1758, At Trout Brook, Ticonderoga, N. Y., A MonographIt is true that while men of some repute as historians have accepted these traditions, others, of as great if not greater reputa tion as faithful narrators of historical facts, though minutely de Scribing the soldier-life and death of Lord Howe nowhere refer to or accept the tradition that his remains were buried in Albany.The burial of a man, however distinguished, became in the early colonial days of anxiety and peril, a matter of little moment. And any supposition or impression as to the exact locality would naturally pass into history without any very thorough or careful examination, and thus be accepted as a fact. And so it has hap pened, as it has in other instances, that historical writers have accepted a general tradition as to Lord Howe's burial, and without careful investigation have assumed its truth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.