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Sketches of Bunker Hill battle and monument : with illustrative documents

Ellis, George Edward, 1843. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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book

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Ellis, George Edward

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Charlestown [Mass.] : C. P. Emmons

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1843

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en

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NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 08044593 9 BUNKER HILL BATTLE MONUMENT. :)\U ■\-\ a, THE NEWYORK PUBLIC LIBRARY kiJ9Kt LENfJX ANi TM-DEN FOUNOA.HONI. 1° J SKETCHES BUNKER HILL BATTLE MONUMENT: WITH ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS. ^bjj }«</r^e> Wm/avc-I v'»*J T FM R.D • E D.LT-IO ■* . CHARLESTOWN: C. P. EMMONS, 47 AND 49 MAIN STREET. 1S43. Ch *o-. TME NEW YORK] PUBLIC LIBRARY1 584207 ••TOM, LlM< *"■ TUDl* .o, .^OATOWt P. 19«3 Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1843, BY CHARLES P. EMMONS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. STERFOTYI-ED $>£ ' <~H T^ GEORGE \. QtfRTI- N. ENGLAND TYPE AND !? TEPEDTTPE-l Ot >?.DRY, BOSTON. PRINTED PY DUTTON AND WENTWORTH. Page. 7- -27 28- -87 88- -154 88- -12S CONTENTS. Preliminary Remarks on the Opening Scenes of the American Revolution, The Battle, ...... Documents Illustrative of the Battle of Bunker's Hill, .... Part I. English Documents, . Extracts from the Orderly Book of General Howe, . . . 88—92 Letter from General Gage to Lord Dartmouth, .... 92 — 98 Observations on the above, . 98 — 106 General Burgoyne to Lord Stanley, 106 — 110 Observations on the above, . 110 — 114 Letter from a British Surgeon, . 114 Letter from a British Officer, . 115 — 116 Letter from a British Officer, . 117 — 119 Letter from a Merchant in Boston, 119 — 123 Letter :bf H. Huiton, OomWssioher, 123— 128 129—154 129—131 131—139 140—142 142—145 145—147 148—150 151—154 155—172 Part II. American Documents, Committee' o"Ssi 2 t)V I r. Account sent to/England, .. Account to (p$Ag£ess,,> « .• ; Account of the Engagp.m«ivt, Letter from Colonel Stark, Letter from Mr. Isaac Lothrop, Letter from Rev. Dr. Eliot, The Monument, .... PRELIMINARY REMARKS UPON THE OPENING SCENES AMERICAN REVOLUTION The important relation which the Battle of Bunker Hill bears to the whole war of the Amer- ican Revolution, requires a brief statement of the causes that led to that memorable conflict. Pro- posals in successive British Parliaments, for the taxation of the American colonists, without allow- ing them a representation in those Parliaments, first opened the issue of strife. That there were those, especially in the New England colonies, who had for some time previous cherished a lurking spirit of opposition to any acts of sovereignty which Great Britain might here attempt to exercise, may not be denied. The mother country was bur- dened with a debt, which, though trifling compared with that which now weighs upon her, was then felt to be grievous ; and it was not strange, that, amid the various projects for meeting its annual obligations," the hope of a revenue from America 8 BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. should suggest itself. The taxing of America was first moved in the British Parliament by Mr. Grenville, in March, 1764. The result of his motion was the Stamp Act, imposing a tax upon all notes, bonds, papers, &c, which passed the House of Commons by a vote of 250 to 50, and the House of Lords, without debate or dissent, and received the approval of George III., March 22, 1765. The object of this delay of a whole year be- tween the motion and its passage, was to give the colonists an opportunity to suggest some other mode of raising the tax, which should be prefera- ble to

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