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BUNKVC_190810_003.JPG: Bunker Hill Museum
Boston National Historic Park
BUNKVC_190810_006.JPG: The Decisive Day: The Battle of Bunker Hill
Revolution, Monument, and Commemoration
BUNKVC_190810_014.JPG: Charlestown: In the Shadow of History
BUNKVC_190810_025.JPG: Bunker Hill Monument Competition Drawings
BUNKVC_190810_045.JPG: The Holmes Hoisting Apparatus
c 1820
BUNKVC_190810_049.JPG: Memorial Tablets
BUNKVC_190810_052.JPG: Memorial Dedication
BUNKVC_190810_056.JPG: Centennial Commemoration
BUNKVC_190810_061.JPG: United States postal stamps celebrating Battle of Bunker Hill
BUNKVC_190810_063.JPG: Commemoration to Celebration
BUNKVC_190810_069.JPG: Commemorating the Patriotic Spirit
BUNKVC_190810_071.JPG: The First Monument
BUNKVC_190810_072.JPG: The Bunker Hill Monument Association
BUNKVC_190810_074.JPG: Envisioning the Monument
BUNKVC_190810_077.JPG: Funders and Fairs
BUNKVC_190810_079.JPG: Built of Granite Block
BUNKVC_190810_106.JPG: The Irish of Charlestown:
Seventeenth Century to Civil War
BUNKVC_190810_110.JPG: First Wave of Irish Immigration
BUNKVC_190810_116.JPG: The Irish Settle In
BUNKVC_190810_121.JPG: The Irish Gain Strength
BUNKVC_190810_124.JPG: Fighting for the Union
BUNKVC_190810_129.JPG: The Ursuline Convent
BUNKVC_190810_134.JPG: The Great Irish Famine
BUNKVC_190810_143.JPG: The Freemasons in CHarlestown
BUNKVC_190810_147.JPG: Recycling History
BUNKVC_190810_155.JPG: The Road to Revolution
BUNKVC_190810_158.JPG: The Rebellious Colonies
BUNKVC_190810_160.JPG: New Hampshire
BUNKVC_190810_163.JPG: Rhode Island
BUNKVC_190810_166.JPG: Connecticut
BUNKVC_190810_169.JPG: New York
BUNKVC_190810_172.JPG: New Jersey
BUNKVC_190810_174.JPG: Pennsylvania
BUNKVC_190810_176.JPG: An Independent New England
BUNKVC_190810_183.JPG: The Armies Face Off: The Patriot Militia
BUNKVC_190810_191.JPG: The Face of the Patriot Soldier
BUNKVC_190810_194.JPG: Contributors to the Cause...
Salem Poor * Gallant Soldier
Affidavit of Robert Roberts
BUNKVC_190810_196.JPG: Battle of Bunker Hill Cyclorama
BUNKVC_190810_231.JPG: "No man thinks more highly of them than I do.
I love and honour the English troops.
I know their virtue and their valour.
I know they can achieve anything except impossibilities."
-- William Pitt, the Early of Chatham, referring to the British Army in the American Revolution
BUNKVC_190810_232.JPG: British soldier's sword from the battle
BUNKVC_190810_233.JPG: The Armies Face Off: The British Army
BUNKVC_190810_239.JPG: The British Leaders
Thomas Gage
BUNKVC_190810_242.JPG: William Howe
BUNKVC_190810_244.JPG: Henry Clinton
BUNKVC_190810_250.JPG: The British Prepare to Attack
BUNKVC_190810_253.JPG: Reproduction American powder horn similar to that used by patriots in 1775
BUNKVC_190810_261.JPG: British drum taken at the battle.
BUNKVC_190810_270.JPG: The Battle
BUNKVC_190810_272.JPG: The Hill Teemed with Troops
BUNKVC_190810_273.JPG: Balls Flew Like Hailstones and Cannons Roared Like Thunder
BUNKVC_190810_275.JPG: Nearly Exhausted
BUNKVC_190810_277.JPG: Cannon balls from the battle
BUNKVC_190810_281.JPG: This is a reproduction of Joseph Warren's Masonic apron. The Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts owns the original.
BUNKVC_190810_291.JPG: Patriot, Physician, and Soldier Joseph Warren
BUNKVC_190810_296.JPG: The Brotherhood of Freemasons
BUNKVC_190810_299.JPG: The Patriot Leaders
BUNKVC_190810_302.JPG: Artemas Ward
BUNKVC_190810_304.JPG: John Stark
BUNKVC_190810_307.JPG: Israel Putnam
William Prescott
BUNKVC_190810_310.JPG: "I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price."
-- Patriot Brigadier General Nathanael Greene
BUNKVC_190810_312.JPG: "A dear bought victory, another such would have ruined us."
-- British Major General Henry Clinton
BUNKVC_190810_322.JPG: The British Evacuation
BUNKVC_190810_333.JPG: The Landscape
The Landing
BUNKVC_190810_335.JPG: The Rail Fence
BUNKVC_190810_338.JPG: The First Attack
The Second Attack
BUNKVC_190810_340.JPG: The Third Attack
BUNKVC_190810_350.JPG: Patriots behind the Breed's Hill breastwork prepare for the third and final British assault.
BUNKVC_190810_365.JPG: Artists View the Battle
BUNKVC_190810_371.JPG: The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, 17 June, 1775
BUNKVC_190810_375.JPG: Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775
BUNKVC_190810_387.JPG: Accounts of the Battle
Participants in and witnesses to the battle recorded what they experienced or saw from a distance. British regulars, American patriots, and noncombatants of differing loyalties describe a day of smoke and fire, bloodshed and thunderous noise.
BUNKVC_190810_388.JPG: Charlestown peninsula from the North, June 17, 1775.
BUNKVC_190810_395.JPG: It looks like a high aerial but it's the sail of a tall ship over the horizon.
BUNKVC_190810_409.JPG: Musket
This is a reproduction of British infantry's weapon in 1775, the Short Land Musket, sometimes called "Brown Bess." Less accurate than a rifle, it fired a large lead ball. Volley fire and the bayonet charge had made the British soldier master of Europe's battlefields, but these tactics sometimes proved unsuitable for fighting in America. In June 1775, colonists carried a variety of similar weapons -- smoothbore flintlocks of limited range of accuracy.
Bayonet
"We having very few bayonets, could make no resistance," declared Colonel Prescott after the battle. British musket volleys did little damage to the patriots fighting from cover. However, the British used bayonets like this reproduction to deadly effect when they entered the redoubt during their final assault. British troops were all equipped with bayonets and well-trained in their use.
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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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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
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