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Title: Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or, The war of independence : a history of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the first president of the United States of America ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Edward Walker, 114 Fulton Street
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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of ammuni-tion and stores. He soon succeeded in forming an excellent staffof brave officers, and in the establishment of a code of disciplinarylaws, to which the soldiers in general paid ready obedience. On reconnoitring, Washington discovered that the main body ofthe British army, under General Howe, were strongly entrenchingthemselves upon Bunker Hill. Three floating batteries were placedin Mystic River; a twenty gun ship in Charles River; a strong bat-tery was erected on Copps Hill in Boston, and very strong entrench- * The death of General Warren was greatly lamented by the Americans. Hewas a physician, and much beloved both in his profession and private life. Hehad received the commission of Major-General just three days before the battle, andwas only thirty-five years of age. He rushed into this battle as a mere volunteer.He was killed almost instantly, by a ball in the head, on or near the spot where nowstands Bunker Hill Monument.— Goodrich. \ Marshall, vol. ii., pp. 288-94.
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chap, v.) EVENTS OF 1775. 173 Organizntion of the Continental Army. Expedition to Canada. merits were in progress upon Boston Neck. In view of these activeoperations, he clearly saw how dangerous it would be to follow theadvice of some members of the Congress, to attack the Britishtroops at once. Instead of that, he began strengthening his ownline ; and contracting it, he kept the centre at Cambridge, under hisown immediate command, placed the right wing at Roxbury, underGeneral Ward, and the left near the Mystic, under General Lee.The British were thus completely blockaded by land, and wereobliged to receive all their supplies by ships from distant ports, asthe American^would not furnish them with food of any kind. Stillthey remained strangely inactive, and the summer and autumn passedaway without any collision between the two armies, thus givingWashington ample time to organize his forces and prepare for theSpring campaign, if circumstances should demand one. GeneralGage was recalle

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