This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...does it matter at all, by how many names Breed's Hill war known. Many a hill has several os more, but does not lose its proper identity on that account. Brown's Hill in Danvers, like various others in the town, is thus favored, being also familiarly known under the names of "Folly Hill and "Long Hill," yet it is the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...does it matter at all, by how many names Breed's Hill war known. Many a hill has several os more, but does not lose its proper identity on that account. Brown's Hill in Danvers, like various others in the town, is thus favored, being also familiarly known under the names of "Folly Hill and "Long Hill," yet it is the selfsame Hill notwithstanding, nor am I aware that any anyone has blundered about it, or about any of its neighbors, however humble, or however named. And though Englishman, American, Chinese or Egyptian should C9ll Breed's Hill Green's or White's or Black's, he could not for the life of him make it Bunker. Neither does it matter what the general world beyond Charlestown knew about it or styled it, anyway. As already seen, the authorities at Cambridge were sufficiently info, tii' d with regard to it and it is with them that we have to do as regards this question. Previous to the Battle, reconnoitering parties had been sent out to inspect the peninsula and its surroundings, and it is more than prohable that before the detachment received its orders, the two hills had been considered and talked ab, ut at headquarters, as the natural and inevitable thought and inquiry came, where shall the intrenchment he made? So it is not true, as Judge Prescott says, that "there was not then the distinction between Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, that has since been made" Quite the contrary. The fact that the original purpose, as well as recommendation of the Committee of Safety, was to fortify Bunker Hill, and that the Battle for the most part took place near the base of that eminence and made its summit and declivities so largely a picture of the movements of the day, gave to the engagement at once its name in history, "Bunker Hill m...
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