History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill: Also an Account of the Bunker Hill MonumentLittle, Brown, & Company, 1903 - 422 pagine |
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Adams alarm American April arms army arrived artillery attack battle of Bunker Boston Boston Neck Breed's Hill Bridge British troops Bunker Hill Cambridge camp cannon cannonade Captain Cobble Hill Colonel Prescott colonies command commenced committee of correspondence committee of safety Concord Connecticut Copp's Hill council defend detachment Dorchester enemy England Faneuil Hall field-pieces fire force fortified Gage Gage's Gazette Governor Gridley guns Hampshire honor hundred inhabitants intrenchments Island John July June June 16 June 25 killed land letter Lexington liberty lines Lord Dartmouth Major Massachusetts military militia minute-men monument morning Mystic River night o'clock officers ordered Orderly Book party patriots powder Prospect Hill Provincial Congress Putnam rail fence rebels received redoubt regiment reinforcements retreat returned Roxbury Samuel says selectmen sent ships shot soldiers spirit Swett Thomas thousand tion took Tories town vessels Ward Warren Washington William wounded writes
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Pagina 70 - were so much exhausted with fatigue that they were obliged to lie down for rest on the ground, their tongues hanging out of their mouths, like those of dogs after a chase.
Pagina 235 - Ten thousand celestials directed the way, And hither conducted the dame. A fair budding branch from the gardens above, Where millions with millions agree, She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, And the plant she named Liberty Tree. The celestial exotic struck deep in the ground, Like a native it flourished and bore ; The fame of its fruit drew the nations around, To seek out this peaceable shore.
Pagina 233 - You affect, sir, to despise all rank not derived from the same source with your own. I cannot conceive one more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
Pagina 235 - Like a native it flourish'd and bore; The fame of its fruit drew the nations around, To seek out this peaceable shore. Unmindful of names or distinctions they came, For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endued, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was LIBERTY TREE.
Pagina 24 - I suppose, and there they choose a moderator, who puts questions to the vote regularly ; and selectmen, assessors, collectors, wardens, firewards, and representatives, are regularly chosen before they are chosen in the town. Uncle Fairfield, Story, Ruddock, Adams, Cooper, and a rudis indigestaque moles of others are members. They send committees to wait on the merchant's club, and to propose and join in the choice of men and measures.
Pagina 288 - It is a noble cause we are engaged in ; it is the cause of virtue and mankind ; every temporal advantage and comfort to us and our posterity, depends upon the vigor of our exertions ; in short, freedom or slavery must be the result of our conduct ; there can therefore be no greater inducement to men to behave well.
Pagina 238 - The trials we have had, show the rebels are not the despicable rabble too many have supposed them to be, and I find it owing to a military spirit encouraged among them for a few years past, joined with uncommon zeal and enthusiasm.
Pagina 297 - I have been in a constant state of anxiety since you left me," writes she on Saturday. " It has been said to-morrow, and to-morrow for this month, and when the dreadful tomorrow will be, I know not. But hark ! The house this instant shakes with the roar of cannon. I have been to the door, and find it is a cannonade from our army. Orders, I find, are come, for all the remaining militia to repair to the lines Monday night, by twelve o'clock. No sleep for me to-night.
Pagina 235 - IN a chariot of light, from the regions of day, The goddess of liberty came, Ten thousand celestials directed the way, And hither conducted the dame. A fair budding branch from the...
Pagina 335 - Let it rise! let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.