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action adjutant Americans ammunition army arrived Artemas Ward artillery attack balls batteries battle of Bunker bayonets behaved Boston brave bravery breastwork Breed's Hill bridge British troops Bunker Hill Cambridge cannon Charlestown Charlestown Neck Christian Febiger Clinton Cobble Hill Colonel Prescott Colonel Stark colonies command commenced commissioned Committee of Safety company of Grenadiers Connecticut troops Copp's Hill Council dead detachment enemy enemy's engaged fence field field-pieces fire force fought front FROTHINGHAM Gage gallantry Gerrish's ground guns Hampshire heights honor hundred immediately intrenchments John June 17 labor land letter Lieutenant lieutenant-colonel light-infantry Major Brooks mand marched Massachusetts ment morning Moulton's Point Mystic River night o'clock ordered panies patriot Pigot Provincial Congress Putnam rail-fence rank re-enforcements rear reconnoitre redoubt retreat Richard Gridley says Scarborough Gridley Seth Pomeroy ships shot side soldier soon spirit Swett thousand tion town veteran Ward Ward's regiment Warren whole William yards