The Siege of BostonMacmillan, 1911 - 450 strani |
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Abigail Adams Americans army artillery attack Bancroft batteries battle began boats bridge British Bunker Hill Burgoyne called Cambridge camp cannon captain Charlestown Church Colonel colonies colonists command Committee of Safety Concord council Decorated cloth defenders Dorchester doubt England enlisted expedition Faneuil Hall fight fire fleet force fortified friends Frothingham's Siege Gage Gage's governor guns Hancock harbor hundred Hutchinson John Adams John Andrews king king's leaders letter Lexington liberty Lieutenant Barker Lord marched Massachusetts ment military militia Neck never night officers party Percy Port Bill powder Powder Alarm Prescott Putnam rail fence ready rebels redoubt regiments returned Revere Revere's Roxbury Samuel Adams says seize selectmen sent ships side Siege of Boston situation soldiers Stamp Act supply thousand tion took Tories town meeting troops waited Warren Washington Whigs Writings of Washington writs of assistance wrote Yankee
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Stran 300 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Stran 385 - The reflection on my situation and that of this army, produces many an unhappy hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in on a thousand accounts ; fewer still will believe, if any disaster happens to these lines, .from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting the command, under such circumstances, I had taken my musket on my shoulder and entered the ranks ; or, if I could have justified the...
Stran 296 - I may be allowed to answer in the negative ; and give me leave to add, as my opinion, that more blood will be spilled on this occasion, if the ministry are determined to push matters to extremity, than history has ever yet furnished instances of in the annals of North America...
Stran 156 - An independence of Great Britain is not our aim. No, our wish is, that Britain and the colonies may, like the oak and ivy, grow and increase in strength together.
Stran 48 - If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves...
Stran 375 - Such a dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another, in this great change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again.
Stran 290 - Charlestown is laid in ashes. The battle began upon our intrenchments upon Bunker's Hill, Saturday morning about three o'clock, and has not ceased yet, and it is now three o'clock Sabbath afternoon. It is expected they will come out over the Neck to-night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God, cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends! How many have fallen we know not. The constant roar of the cannon is so distressing that we cannot eat, drink, or sleep.
Stran 297 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
Stran 93 - I have thrown up four breast-works, behind which I have entrenched myself, neither of which can be forced. In the first place, I do not understand politics ; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother's son of you ; in the third place, you have politics all the week, pray let one day in...
Stran 386 - I had taken my musket on my shoulder and entered the ranks, or, if I could have justified the measure to posterity and my own conscience, had retired to the back country, and lived in a wigwam. If I shall be able to rise superior to these and many other difficulties, which might be enumerated, I shall most religiously believe, that the finger of Providence is in it, to blind the eyes of our enemies...