You Are Now My Enemy - Historic Marker - Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
N 42° 22.580 W 071° 03.650
19T E 330332 N 4693618
Historical Marker title - You are now my enemy and I am yours... Benjamin Franklin. Marker located on Breed's Hill, near the Battle of Bunker Hill monument, alongside the Freedom Trail, Charlestown, Boston, USA.
Waymark Code: WMY4RP
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 04/21/2018
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You are now my enemy and I am yours...
Benjamin Franklin.
Marker Inscription.
"The British Army was one of the most powerful military forces of the day. Their leaders were career officers. The troops were regularly trained and well equipped. Yet, the enlisted ranks were often filled with soldiers recruited against their will -- poor and unemployed men, sometimes taken right from jail.
Most colonists who fought in this battle were not trained soldiers. They freely fought in militia units from their hometowns. The British commanders did not expect such an improvised army to perform as well as it did. Though the Americans lost this hill, they grew more unified and determined to fight for their freedom."
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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Address: Marker is on Monument Square, in post office area: Charlestown MA 02129, United States of America.