The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . G-lasgout Second Position o/Zively C Tiar 1 e s B ^. 112* 292 Biniker Hill. [May, as his sluggishness after the battle ofBrandywine, and equally induced hisinaction at Philadelphia, in 1778. Just as a similar resistance by Totle-ben at Sevastapol during the CrimeanWar prolonged that struggle for twelvemonths, so did the hastily constructedearthworks on Breeds Hill forewarnthe assailants that every ridge mightserve as a fortress, and every sand-hillbecome a cover, for a persistent andearnest foe.
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . G-lasgout Second Position o/Zively C Tiar 1 e s B ^. 112* 292 Biniker Hill. [May, as his sluggishness after the battle ofBrandywine, and equally induced hisinaction at Philadelphia, in 1778. Just as a similar resistance by Totle-ben at Sevastapol during the CrimeanWar prolonged that struggle for twelvemonths, so did the hastily constructedearthworks on Breeds Hill forewarnthe assailants that every ridge mightserve as a fortress, and every sand-hillbecome a cover, for a persistent andearnest foe. Historical research and militarycriticism suggest few cases where somuch has been realized by the effortsof a few men, in a few hours, duringthe shelter of one night, and by thelight of one day. The simple narrative has been thesubject of much discussion. Its detailshave been shaped and colored, withsupreme regard for the special claimsof preferred candidates for distinc-tion, until a plain considerationof the issue then made, from apurely military point of view, as intro-ductory to a detail of the battle itself,cannot be barren of interest to t
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