01596cam a22003133u 4500 15422 UtSlPG 20260610133348.0 m cr n 260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Potter Release date is 2005-03-20 Dave Maddock, Mary Meehan and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile" by Herman Melville is a novel published in 1855. Based on a real Revolutionary War veteran's memoir, it follows Israel Potter from the Battle of Bunker Hill through capture by the British and escape to England. There he encounters King George III, Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, and Ethan Allen in a series of adventures. Despite his patriotic valor, Israel remains exiled in London poverty for decades before finally returning home fifty years later to a changed America. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Potter, Israel, 1744-1826? -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15422 56810 56810