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17 June 6-pounders action advance Ameri ammunition apparently armed army's artillery artillerymen ashore attack Back Bay battalion companies bayonets boats Boston Neck breastwork Breed's Hill British officers Bunker's Hill Burgoyne Cambridge Canceaux cannon Captain CHAPTER Charles Charlestown Neck Charlestown Peninsula Clinton command Committee of Safety Connecticut Copp's Hill Copp's Hill battery crews defenses deserted Dorchester Heights Dorchester Neck enemy England enlisted ficers fight fire flank fleches force fortifications Gage Glasgow gondolas Graves grenadiers grenadiers and light Gridley Gridley's guns Hampshire Howe's John John Stark June killed Knowlton landing Lexington/Concord Lieutenant Colonel light infantry Loyalists Major marines ments military militia Moulton's Hill Moulton's Point musket Mystic River naval Noddle's Island orders Pigot position Prescott Provincial Congress Putnam Rail Fence Rebels redoubt regi reinforcements retreat Roxbury sachusetts Scammon sent ships shot sloop-of-war soldiers Stark Thomas tion town troops Ward Ward's Ward's regiment warships William wounded