Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . , protected by intrench-ments. Immediately behind this hiU, stretching from theburial-ground across to Beacon Street Mall, were the camps ofthree battahons of infantry. Such were the dispositions to-prevent a landing by the American forces under of the works were formidable except the most southern,which was connected with the lines on the I^eck. The Commonwas an intrenched camp, with a regular garrison of 1,750 men. The remains of the British works were visible until the be-ginning of the century. I have talked with those who h
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . , protected by intrench-ments. Immediately behind this hiU, stretching from theburial-ground across to Beacon Street Mall, were the camps ofthree battahons of infantry. Such were the dispositions to-prevent a landing by the American forces under of the works were formidable except the most southern,which was connected with the lines on the I^eck. The Commonwas an intrenched camp, with a regular garrison of 1,750 men. The remains of the British works were visible until the be-ginning of the century. I have talked with those who haveseen the holes made by the soldiers for their kitchens, and theditches on the hill where the monument now stands. The strength of the British position may be inferred fromthe fact that Du Coudray, an experienced French officer ofartdlery, engaged by our commissioners to command that armin our service, laughed long and heartily on vieAving from Bea-con Hill the works which the Britisli had erected, and whichthey had so precipitately A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON, 329 Behind the three-gun battery situated on Beacon Hill were aniimber of ropewalks, bounding north on Myrtle Street, andoccupied in Eevolutionary times by Henderson Inches. Thiswas the camp of the British Light Horse, who used the rope-walks as their stables, and the Old South as a Street now passes through the site of these spur of Beacon Hill known as Mt. Vernon, and for whichthat street takes its name, was called Mt. Hoardam, andMt. Whoredom, a difference merely of orthography. We shallsee that the mihtary positions in and around the Common werepresided over by some distinguished personages. In May, 1706, an act was passed erecting a Powder House inthe town, and one was budt on the hill near the Frog was another pond on the Common in early times calledthe Horse Pond, a stagnant pool of water long since fiUed was situated a little to the southeast of old Flags
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