Breed's Hill - Historic Marker - Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
N 42° 22.581 W 071° 03.646
19T E 330338 N 4693620
Breed's Hill - AKA - The site of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
This marker is near the entrance to the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston National Historical Park, Charlestown, Boston, USA.
Waymark Code: WMY4PN
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 04/21/2018
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Breed's Hill, confusingly the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
The Inscription reads:
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Site of the
Battle of Bunker Hill
fought June 17, 1775
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Although orders were issued by the
Committee of Safety
to seize and fortify Bunker Hill
the colonial officers after consultation
fortified this hill on June 16, 1775.
From the National Park Website:
"On June 17, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Popularly known as "The Battle of Bunker Hill," bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston. Though the British forces claimed the field, the casualties inflicted by the Provincial solders from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire were staggering. Of the some 2,400 British Soldiers and Marines engaged, some 1,000 were wounded or killed.
Fifty years after the battle, the Marquis De Lafayette set the cornerstone of what would become a lasting monument and tribute to the memory of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The project was ambitious: construct a 221-foot tall obelisk built entirely from quarried granite. It took over seventeen years to complete, but it still stands to this day atop a prominence of the battlefield now known as Breed's Hill. Marking the site where Provincial forces constructed an earthen fort, or "Redoubt," prior to the battle, this site remains the focal point of the battle's memory."
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