# The boy's book of battle-lyrics

Author: English, Thomas Dunn, 1819-1902

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70415

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+boy%27s+book+of+battle-lyrics+English&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

During the last twenty-five years my work in verse has been mainly confined to illustrating the history of the United States, with occasional studies of local life and character. Of this, judging by notices of the press, and their appearance in compilations of a patriotic or martial nature, the metrical narratives of battles seem to have been most approved; and it occurred to me that a volume embracing my productions in that line of literary labor might meet with popular favor. My first intention was to take up every notable event, so that the book might be a complete metrical history, and I prepared partly the matter for the purpose, including the capture of the _Serapis_ and the achieve...

## Chapters

- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-s-book-of-battle-lyrics-70415/chapters/1/index.md)