Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . son, father of the governor, once rested here. Besides theMathers, Andrew and John Ehot, divines of old celebrity, liehere. From Copps Hill Burgoyne and Chnton witnessed the fighton Bunker Hill, and directed the fire of thrj battery. It was ashell from here that set fire to Charlestown, adding to the gran-deur and horror of the scene. Clinton, seeing the ranks of hisveterans reel and tail back before the murderous discharges fromthe redoubt, threw liimself into a boat and crossed to the aid ofHowe. The British shipping took a prominent part in
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . son, father of the governor, once rested here. Besides theMathers, Andrew and John Ehot, divines of old celebrity, liehere. From Copps Hill Burgoyne and Chnton witnessed the fighton Bunker Hill, and directed the fire of thrj battery. It was ashell from here that set fire to Charlestown, adding to the gran-deur and horror of the scene. Clinton, seeing the ranks of hisveterans reel and tail back before the murderous discharges fromthe redoubt, threw liimself into a boat and crossed to the aid ofHowe. The British shipping took a prominent part in this battle,especially the Glasgow, which lay in a position where she sweptCharlestown Xeck with her guns, thus preventing reinforce-ments passing over to the Americans, and harassing their retreatfrom the hill. An American officer told Putnam no one couldcross that Neck and live; nevertheless it is stated, on the au-thority of Major Russell, that a number of Boston school-boyscrossed and recrossod during the battle. 20S lani).mai; of Till (llas,u;(>w was also om- dl the ilect that hrou^lit the Brit-ish tit Dostoii iu 17G8. The tligraviiig is from an originalilrawing, and shows the style of naval architiiture in the lastcentury. Out of this tran(iuillity we can with dilliculty conjure up the scene of carnage that onceraged u[)(jn the hillside yon-der. Tlie still, starry nightthat preceded the battle, whena thousand men, stacking theirlirelocks, with mattock andspade threw up the hrst ram-part of the Revolution. Grid-ley, the veteran engineer,marking out the works uponTHE GLASGOW. ^\^^. ^yg^ t^-f^ ^^^^1^ Pumeroy, Prescott, Putnam, and many more that heard The (Iruiii tluit beat at Loiiisburg aud thundered in Quebec ! How strangely to their ears must have sounded the cry of theBritish sentinel, Alls well! as he paced where we nowstand. To the laborers on that sultry night this cry was hailedat every hour as proof of their undiscovered toil. So the de-fences
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