Bunker Hill, Which Is Little More Than A Mound, Is At
Charlestown - A Dull, Populous, Respectable, And Very Unattractive
Suburb Of Boston.
Bunker Hill has obtained a considerable name, and is accounted
great in the annals of American history.
In England we have all
heard of Bunker Hill, and some of us dislike the sound as much as
Frenchmen do that of Waterloo. In the States men talk of Bunker
Hill as we may, perhaps, talk of Agincourt and such favorite
fields. But, after all, little was done at Bunker Hill, and, as
far as I can learn, no victory was gained there by either party.
The road from Boston to the town of Concord, on which stands the
village of Lexington, is the true scene of the earliest and
greatest deeds of the men of Boston. The monument at Bunker Hill
stands high and commands attention, while those at Lexington and
Concord are very lowly and command no attention. But it is of that
road and what was done on it that Massachusetts should be proud.
When the colonists first began to feel that they were oppressed,
and a half resolve was made to resist that oppression by force,
they began to collect a few arms and some gunpowder at Concord, a
small town about eighteen miles from Boston. Of this preparation
the English governor received tidings, and determined to send a
party of soldiers to seize the arms. This he endeavored to do
secretly; but he was too closely watched, and word was sent down
over the waters by which Boston was then surrounded that the
colonists might be prepared for the soldiers.
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