title: ISRAEL POTTER: His 50 Years of Exile
author:  Herman Melville 
description: Israel Potter (1855) examines the life of an ordinary patriot, a common man manipulated by powerful forces and utterly forgotten among the lists of American Revolutionary War heroes. His story is filled with the twists and turns of battle, captivity and escape
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  # Israel Potter
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Herman Melville
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  Dedication.
  
  
  CHAPTER I. THE BIRTHPLACE OF ISRAEL.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. THE YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL.
  
  
  CHAPTER III. ISRAEL GOES TO THE WARS; AND REACHING
  
  
  BUNKER HILL IN TIME TO BE OF SERVICE THERE, SOON AFTER IS FORCED TO
  
  
  EXTEND HIS TRAVELS ACROSS THE SEA INTO THE ENEMY'S LAND.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. FURTHER WANDERINGS OF THE REFUGEE, WITH
  
  
  SOME ACCOUNT OF A GOOD KNIGHT OF BRENTFORD WHO BEFRIENDED HIM.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. ISRAEL IN THE LION'S DEN.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. ISRAEL MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF
  
  
  CERTAIN SECRET FRIENDS OF AMERICA, ONE OF THEM BEING THE FAMOUS AUTHOR
  
  
  OF THE “DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY,” THESE DESPATCH HIM ON A SLY ERRAND
  
  
  ACROSS THE CHANNEL.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. AFTER A CURIOUS ADVENTURE UPON THE
  
  
  PONT NEUF, ISRAEL ENTERS THE PRESENCE OF THE RENOWNED SAGE, DR.
  
  
  FRANKLIN, WHOM HE FINDS RIGHT LEARNEDLY AND MULTIFARIOUSLY EMPLOYED.
  