The Army of Observation: New England in Arms On 19 April 1775 local Massachusetts militiamen and regular British troops began the War of American Independence at Lexington and Concord. The New England colonists reacted to this news by raising four separate armies. Each jurisdiction formed its force according to its particular experience in earlier wars…
All posts in 1775-06-17 Bunker Hill
Affiliate Link
 |
Affaires in Boston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 25. –We hear that the enemy, in Boston, the evening on which our troops burnt the houses at Charlestown, were entertaining themselves at the exhibition of a play, which they called the Blockade of Boston; in the midst…
The Armies at Boston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The regulars are situated on Bunker’s and Breed’s Hills, both on the peninsula, where the late town of Charlestown stood, and within reach and under the cover of the guns, from the batteries in the town of Boston, and…
British Account of the Battle of Breed’s Hill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 26. –The Massachusetts occasional newspaper of today, gives the following account of the action at Boston on the seventeenth: –“This town was alarmed at break of day, by a firing from the Lively ship-of-war; and a report was…
Battle of Breed’s Hill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 17. –Last night a detachment from the camp at Cambridge, marched to Charlestown, and there took possession of Breed’s Hill, about half a mile from the ferry. Their intrenching tools not coming up in season, it was twelve…