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Battle of Bunker Hill Vividly Recounted in Historic Sketch
Elmo Scott Watson presents a detailed recount of the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, tracing its origins from a French settler named Bon Coeur to the strategic choices at Breed's Hill. The piece highlights key figures like Prescott Stark Putnam and John Trumbull, and notes Trumbull’s revolutionary paintings and Webster’s later oration at the monument dedication.
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Bunker Hill
Canada
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Boston Harbor
Monsieur Bon Coeur
Mister Bunker
M. Bon Coeur
Mister Goodheart
Bunker
Boston
Thomas Gage
Gridley
Artemas Ward
Charles River
Gage
Dorchester
Charlestown
William Prescott
Breed’s Hill
Mystic River
Cambridge
William Howe
Lively
the Charles
Prescott
Sir Henry Clinton
Howe
Israeli Putnam
John Stark
Breed's Hill
America
Roxbury Heights
Connecticut
John Trumbull
Washington
General Gates
Ticonderoga
Gates
Continental Congress
Trumbull
Sullivan
Rhode Island
Paris
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin West
London
Franklin
Lord Germain
West
Gilbert Stuart
Andre
Colonel Trumbull
Tuthill Bridewell
Lrumbull
Cornwallis
England
Joshua Reynolds
Battle of
Montgomery
Quebec
Burgoyne
France
Robespierre
Louis David
David
Atlantic
Marquis de la Fayette
la Fayette
Daniel Webster