{"id":1253,"date":"2016-02-02T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2016-02-02T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:57:22","slug":"the-battle-of-bunker-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/blog\/the-battle-of-bunker-hill","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Bunker Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sketch of the Battle of Bunker Hill, by Lt. Thomas Page. June 17, 1775. Library of Congress [click to enlarge]<\/figcaption><\/figure>Back in 2013, Smithsonian<\/em>\u00a0Magazine<\/em> published an excellent article focusing on the Battle of Bunker (Breed’s) Hill (17 June 1775) – the first major encounter between the Colonials and Redcoats. The piece featured Nathaniel Philbrick – author (among other titles) of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex<\/a><\/em> which won the National Book Award in 2000 and, more recently, served as the basis for this feature film<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As mentioned in class, while Bunker Hill is tallied a British “win” (they captured the ground), the victory came at a calamitous price. 1,054 of the Crown’s officers and soldiers fell casualty in the course of fighting – the highest casualty count suffered by the British in any single encounter during the entire war.<\/p>\n

“The True Story of the Battle for Bunker’s Hill,” provides a great deal of detail not only about the day’s fighting, but also about daily life and the environs in and around colonial Boston.<\/p>\n

It probably wasn’t anything like you think. For one thing,<\/p>\n

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Boston in 1775 was much smaller, hillier and more watery than it appears today. The Back Bay was still a bay and the South End was likewise underwater; hills were later leveled to fill in almost 1,000 acres. Boston was virtually an island, reachable by land only via a narrow neck. And though founded by Puritans, the city wasn\u2019t puritanical. One rise near Beacon Hill, known for its prostitutes, was marked on maps as \u201cMount Whoredom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check out the rest of the story HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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