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1. BUNKER_190810_013.JPG: Massachusetts Gate Colonel William Prescott of Massachusetts led the colonial forces on Breed's Hill. His commanding figure and strong will inspired the farmer soldiers to the greatness of the day. Dr. Joseph Warren, commissioned a Major General, elected to serve Prescott as a private in the battle. Dr. Warren, an early leader in the Revolution, was killed on this battlefield in the waning moments of the conflict.
2. BUNKER_190810_016.JPG: Massachusetts Gate June 17, 1775 This hand opposed to tyrants searches, with a sword for peaceful conditions under liberty.
3. BUNKER_190810_023.JPG: The ranger pointed out that vandals had spraypainted on the monument when the queen visited in 1976.
4. BUNKER_190810_028.JPG: The Decisive Day has come on which the fate of America depends... -- Abigail Adams This high ground of Breed's Hill bound the American colonies to the cause of independence. An open field once located here commanded this entire area. On the night of June 16, 1775, two month after the fighting at Lexington and Concord, 1,200 colonial militiamen quickly built a small earthen fort.As drawn broke on June 17, the fort stood in clear view of the British army in Boston. British cannon from ship and land opened fire. Some2,200 British soldiers crossed the Charles River and assaulted the hill. After several bloody attacks, the British troops overran the colonists. The British forces won this ground, but it cost nearly half their men. Battle of Bunker Hill.The patriots await the British assault 1775. Painting by Don Troiani
5. BUNKER_190810_032.JPG: South-east corner of the redoubt thrown up on the night of the sixteenth of June 1775
6. BUNKER_190810_038.JPG: "Don't fire ‘til you see the whites of their eyes." The Battle of Bunker Hill, fought here on Breed's Hill, June 17, 1775, was the first major military confrontation of the Revolutionary War. Although the British won the battle – at a terrible cost – it was a great moral victory for the Patriots, who prayed that they would and could stand up against the British regulars. This monument of Quincy granite, built between 1825 and 1843, stands today as a memorial to the courage, purpose, and sacrifice of those Patriots of 1775 whose actions here rallied the Colonies and prompted General Washington to declare "The liberties of our country are safe."
7. BUNKER_190810_043.JPG: This Column Stands on Union! Daniel Webster In the years following the battle, this hill became sacred ground. A new patriotic spirit swept the nation in the 1820s. Americans looked to honor the sacrifice and service of their ancestors. For two decades, many men and women, led by the Bunker Hill Monument Association, worked to raise funds for a suitable memorial. On June 17, 1843, over 100,000 people gathered here for the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument. Statesman and orator Daniel Webster spoke to the crowd, which included John Tyler and the last living veterans of the battle.
8. BUNKER_190810_050.JPG: 1830 1837 This monument was not only a symbol of national pride, but a great feat of engineering. The first commercial railway in America was built to transport granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts. A Boston ship rigger built a special hoisting apparatus to lift the five-ton blocks into place. Bunker Hill Memorial Tablets, 1890
9. BUNKER_190810_053.JPG: The ranger pointed out the bullet impact. There had been a shooting in the building in the 1800s.
10. BUNKER_190810_058.JPG: Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775) by Henry Dexter, c 1851-55
11. BUNKER_190810_062.JPG: Doctor Joseph Warren
12. BUNKER_190810_074.JPG: Colonel John Stark
13. BUNKER_190810_084.JPG: Captain John Linzee
14. BUNKER_190810_090.JPG: The defensive works on Breed's Hill were laid out by and constructed under Colonel Richard Gridley Chief engineer, New England Provincial Army who in July 1775 was appointed by General Washington as first chief engineer of the Continental Army.
15. BUNKER_190810_100.JPG: "The Adams" Cannon
16. BUNKER_190810_103.JPG: Warning: Before You Climb
17. BUNKER_190810_109.JPG: Erected A.D. 1794 by King Solomon's Lodge of Freemasons constituted at Charlestown 1783 In Memory of Major General Joseph Warren and his associates who were slain on this memorable spot June 17, 1775 Re-dedicated June 17, 1994
18. BUNKER_190810_123.JPG: Steps were numbered... There were 294.
19. BUNKER_190810_126.JPG: By this point, I was photographing just so I had an excuse to pause instead of walking up the steps.
20. BUNKER_190810_129.JPG: The last indicator.
21. BUNKER_190810_147.JPG: Breed's Hill Site of the Battle of Bunker Hill fought June 17, 1775 Although orders were issued by the Committee of Safety to seize and fortify Bunker Hill the colonial officers after consultation fortified this hill on June 16, 1775.
22. BUNKER_190810_149.JPG: North-east corner of the redoubt thrown up on the night of the sixteenth of June 1775
23. BUNKER_190810_152.JPG: The breastwork thrown up on the morning of the seventeenth of June 1775 Extended northerly three-hundred feet
24. BUNKER_190810_162.JPG: You are now my enemy and I am yours... Benjamin Franklin The British Army was one of the most powerful military forces of the day. Their leaders were career officers. The troops were regularly trained and well equipped. Yet, the enlisted ranks were often filled with soldiers recruited against their will -- poor and unemployed men, sometimes taken right from jail. Most colonists who fought in this battle were not trained soldiers. They freely fought in militia units from their hometowns. The British commanders did not expect such an improvised army to perform as well as it did. Though the Americans lost this hill, they grew more unified and determined to fight for their freedom. Nothing could be more shocking than the carnage that followed the storming of this work. We tumbled over the dead to get at the living... Nathanael Greene, Brigadier General, Rhode Island Militia I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price. -- John Waller, First Lieutenant, British Army I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price. -- Nathanael Greene, Brigadier General, Rhode Island Militia
25. BUNKER_190810_180.JPG: Colonel William Prescott June 17, 1775
26. BUNKER_190810_194.JPG: William Wetmore Story From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Wetmore Story (February 12, 1819 – October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor. Life and career William Wetmore Story was the son of jurist Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo (Wetmore) Story. He graduated from Harvard College in 1838 and the Harvard Law School in 1840. After graduation, he continued his law studies under his father, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and prepared two legal treatises of value -- Treatise on the Law of Contracts not under Seal (2 vols., 1844) and Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property (1847). He soon abandoned the law though to devote himself to sculpture, and after 1850 lived in Rome, where he had first visited in 1848, and where he counted among his friends the Brownings and Walter Savage Landor. In 1856, he received a commission for a bust of his late father, now in the Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall, Harvard University. Story's apartment in Palazzo Barberini became a central location for Americans in Rome. During the American Civil War his letters to the Daily News in December 1861 (afterwards published as a pamphlet, The American Question, i.e. of neutrality), and his articles in Blackwood's Magazine, had considerable influence on English opinion. One of his most famous works, Cleopatra, (1858) was described and admired in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance, The Marble Faun, and is on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. Another work, the Angel of Grief, has been replicated near the Stanford Mausoleum at Stanford University. Among his other life-size statues he completed were those of Saul, Sappho, Electra, Semiramide, Delilah, Judith, Medea, Jerusalem Desolate, Sardanapolis, Solomon, Orestes, Canidia, and Shakespeare. His Saul was completed in Rome in 1865, and taken to England by Noel Wills who displayed it at Rendcomb College. It is now in the collection of North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. His Sibyl and Cleopatra were exhibited at the 1863 Universal Exposition in London. In the 1870s, Story submitted a design for the Washington Monument, then under a prolonged and troubled construction. Although the Washington National Monument Society considered his proposals "vastly superior in artistic taste and beauty" to the original 1836 design by Robert Mills, they were not adopted, and the monument was completed to Mills' scheme, only slightly modified. Story also sculpted a bronze statue of Joseph Henry on the Mall in Washington, D.C., the scientist who served as the Smithsonian Institution's first Secretary. His works Libyan Sibyl, Medea and Cleopatra are on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. Story died at Vallombrosa Abbey, Italy, a place he was sentimentally attached, and which he chronicled in an informal travel journal, Vallombrosa in 1881. He is buried with his wife, Emelyn Story, in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, under a statue of his own design (Angel of Grief). A posthumous biography of Wetmore (and his circle), entitled William Wetmore Story and His Friends, was penned by Henry James. Family His children also pursued artistic careers: Thomas Waldo Story (1854–1915) became a sculptor; Julian Russell Story (1857–1919) was a successful portrait painter; and Edith Marion (1844–1907), the Marchesa Peruzzi de' Medici, became a writer. Selected works * Statue of George Peabody next to the Royal Exchange, London, 1869. A replica, erected in 1890, stands next to the Peabody Institute, Mount Vernon Park, Baltimore, Maryland. * Joseph Henry Memorial, Washington D.C., 1883 * John Marshall Memorial, Washington D.C., 1884 * Angel of Grief, 1894, monument to his dead wife. * Statue of Joseph Story, his father, in Harvard Law School's Langdell Hall
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Wikipedia Description: Battle of Bunker Hill
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The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill."

On June 13, 1775, the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city. In response to this intelligence, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, constructed an earthen redoubt on Breed's Hill, and built lightly fortified lines across most of the Charlestown Peninsula.

When the British were alerted to the presence of the new position the next day, they mounted an attack against them. After two assaults on the colonial lines were repulsed with significant British casualties, the British finally captured the positions on the third assault, after the defenders in the redoubt ran out of ammunition. The colonial forces retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, suffering their most significant losses on Bunker Hill.

While the result was a victory for the British, they suffered a large amount of losses: over 800 wounded and 226 killed, including a notably large number of officers. The battle is seen as an example of a Pyrrhic victory, as while their immediate objective (the capture of Bunker Hill) was achieved, the loss of nearly a third of their forces did not significantly alter the state of siege. Meanwhile, colonial forces were able to retreat and regroup in good order having suffered few casualties. Furthermore, the battle demonstrated that relatively inexperienced colonial forces were willing and able to stand up to ...More...
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