FIRST - Man to fall at the Battle of Bunker Hill - Asa Pollard
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Asa Pollard
(1735-1775)
Waymark Code: WM1DDH
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 04/11/2007
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Asa Pollard is described as a happy, easygoing, stocky farm boy from Billerica who enlisted in the Minutemen. He was part of Col. Thomas Stickney's Co., Ebenezer Bridge's regiment. On June 16, 1775, Col.William Prescott was having his men quietly digging a trench on Breed's Hill in preparation for a fort. It was while digging the trench that the British discovered what the American's were up to and they started firing at the fort. A cannonball from the English ship, Somerset anchored in Boston Harbor, hit Asa Pollard and beheaded him as he led the other men to find water to drink. Their water supply had been emptied by a cannon ball by the British that hit the container it was held in. This one event makes Asa the first casualty of the war on Bunker (Breed's) Hill.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 06/16/1775
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