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, 1872 - 422 pagine Looks at the Siege of Boston, plus the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, and the Bunker Hill Monument. |
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Adams alarm American April arms army arrived artillery attack battle of Bunker boats Boston Boston Neck Breed's Hill Bridge British troops Bunker Hill Cambridge camp cannon cannonade Captain carried Cobble Hill Colonel Prescott colonies command commenced committee of correspondence committee of safety Concord Connecticut Copp's Hill council detachment Dorchester enemy England Faneuil Hall fire force fortifications Gage Gage's Gazette Governor guard guns Hampshire honor hundred inhabitants intrenchments Island John July June June 16 June 25 killed land letter Lexington liberty lines Lord Lord Dartmouth Major Massachusetts military militia minute-men monument morning Mystic River night o'clock officers ordered party patriots powder Prospect Hill Provincial Congress Putnam rail fence rebels received redoubt regiment reinforcements retreat returned Roxbury Samuel says Scammans selectmen sent ships shot soldiers spirit Swett Thomas thousand tion took Tories town Ward Warren Washington William wounded writes
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Pagina 76 - 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 30 - There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose a moderator who puts questions to the vote regularly ; and selectmen, assessors, collectors, wardens, fire-wards, and representatives are regularly chosen before they are chosen in the town.
Pagina 286 - I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting the command, under such circumstances, I had taken my musket on my shoulder and entered the ranks ; or, if I could have justified the measure to posterity and my own conscience, had retired to the back country and lived in a wigwam.
Pagina 30 - This day learned that the Caucus Club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the Adjutant of the Boston Regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret which he takes down, and the whole club meets in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose a moderator, who puts questions to the vote regularly; and selectmen...
Pagina 352 - It is itself the orator of this occasion. It is not from my lips, it could not be from any human lips, that that strain of eloquence is this day to flow most competent to move and excite the vast multitudes around me. The powerful speaker stands motionless before us.
Pagina 243 - ... of day, The Goddess of Liberty came ; Ten thousand celestials directed the way, And hither conducted the Dame. A fair budding branch from the gardens above...
Pagina 30 - ... other. There they drink flip, 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 29 - We were so careful that our meetings should be kept secret that every time we met, every person swore upon the Bible that they would not discover any of our transactions but to Messrs. Hancock, Adams, Doctors Warren, Church and one or two more.
Pagina 144 - And now ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived: if we look to the height, Howe's corps, ascending the hill in the face of intrenchments, and in a very disadvantageous ground, was much engaged; to the left the enemy pouring in fresh troops by thousands, over the land; and in the arm of the sea our ships and floating batteries cannonading them; straight...
Pagina 319 - ... a brave army of veterans, commanded by the most experienced generals, but employed by bad men in the worst of causes, was, by the fortitude of your troops, and the address of their officers, next to the kind interposition of Providence, confined for near a year within such narrow limits, as scarcely to admit more room than was necessary for the encampments and fortifications they lately abandoned. Accept, therefore, Sir, the thanks of the United Colonies, unanimously declared by their delegates...