. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. w. BtTNKKR HILL MONUMENT. side, and without skill on the British BUNKER HILL AND THE MONUMENT. 5:3 for many fields have been more bloody in our own times. It isperhaps because the men of j^ew England here cast their firstdefiance in the teeth of the trained bands of Old England; itis because it was an act of aggression, and showed that our sireswere determined to fight and ready to die in their good battle was as astounding to British arrogance as it wasdestructive to British prestige; it cannot be doubted that thememory of that day follow
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. w. BtTNKKR HILL MONUMENT. side, and without skill on the British BUNKER HILL AND THE MONUMENT. 5:3 for many fields have been more bloody in our own times. It isperhaps because the men of j^ew England here cast their firstdefiance in the teeth of the trained bands of Old England; itis because it was an act of aggression, and showed that our sireswere determined to fight and ready to die in their good battle was as astounding to British arrogance as it wasdestructive to British prestige; it cannot be doubted that thememory of that day followed Sir William Howe with blightingeffect to the end of his military career. The story of the battle is so familiar that every schoolboywill tell you where the Provincials intrenched, and where theenemy landed ; how many times the foe was borne back withslaughter, and how many fell. Here, across the river, is CoppsHill, where Clinton and Burgoyne watched the varying for-tunes of the battle, and from which a battery played upon theseheights. The
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