History of the Siege of Boston: And of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Also an Account of the Bunker Hill Monument. With Illustrative DocumentsLittle, Brown, & Company, 1873 - 422 halaman |
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American April arms army arrived artillery attack battle of Bunker Boston Breed's Hill British troops Bunker Hill Bunker Hill Monument Cambridge camp cannon cannonade Capt Captain carried Charlestown Cobble Hill Colonel Prescott colonies command commenced committee of safety Concord Connecticut Copp's Hill council dated detachment Dorchester enemy England feet fire floating batteries force fortifications Gage guns heights honor hundred inhabitants intrenchments Island John Joseph July June June 17 June 25 killed land Lechmere's Point letter Lexington liberty Lieut lines Major Massachusetts military militia monument morning Mystic River Neck night o'clock officers ordered party patriots Prospect Hill Provincial Congress Putnam rail fence rebels received redoubt regiment regulars reinforcements retreat Roxbury Samuel says sent ships shot siege siege of Boston soldiers Solomon Willard Swett Thomas thousand tion town vessels Ward Warren Washington William William Prescott wounded writes wrote
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Halaman 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.
Halaman 238 - Britons, ever pre-eminent in mercy, have outgone common examples, and overlooked the criminal in the captive. Upon these principles your prisoners, whose lives by the law of the land are destined to the cord, have hitherto been treated with care and kindness, and more comfortably lodged than the King's troops in the hospitals ; indiscriminately it is true, for I acknowledge no rank that is not derived from the King.
Halaman 350 - 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.
Halaman 239 - You affect, Sir, to despise all Rank, not derived from the same Source with your own, I cannot conceive one more honourable, than that, which flows from the uncorrupted Choice of a brave and free People, the purest Source, and original Fountain of all Power.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 244 - 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.
Halaman 30 - 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.
Halaman 343 - 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.
Halaman 8 - ... done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Halaman 220 - Washington. You had prepared me to entertain a favorable opinion of him, but I thought the half was not told me. Dignity with ease and complacency, the gentleman and soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face.