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100 1 _aHaycox, Ernest,
_d1899-1950
245 1 0 _aTrial by fire
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from the May 8, 1926 issue of Adventure magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-09
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aTrial by fire by Ernest Haycox is a historical fiction short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on the Battle of Bunker Hill and a Tory New England doctor whose encounter with the fighting forces a reckoning with his loyalties. The story follows Doctor Isaac Brent, a loyalist physician who sets out at dawn and finds his neighbors marching armed toward Charlestown. Learning that Prescott’s men have thrown up a redoubt on Breed’s Hill, he goes to the field to tend the wounded and is swept into the brutal rhythm of the battle—Prescott’s cool commands, Putnam’s encouragement, volleys that break British lines, and, finally, the desperate close-quarters assault when the provincials run out of powder. Brent nurses the fallen, mourns his friend Caleb Gorham’s death, and, in the chaos of the final push, even fights his way out with a seized musket. Returning home exhausted, he admits the courage and conviction he has witnessed are no work of mere agitators, renounces his Tory stance, and resolves to join the provincial army. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The Ridgway Company, 1926
653 _aShort stories
653 _aUnited States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
653 _aPhysicians -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the May 8, 1926 issue of Adventure magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/ADV_1926_05_08.pdf
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78156
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