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Bunker Hill is located in southern Macoupin County in the eastern part of Bunker Hill Township. Carlinville , the Macoupin county seat , is 19 miles (31 km) to the north, Alton on the Mississippi River is 20 miles (32 km) to the southwest, and downtown St. Louis is 37 miles (60 km) to the south-southwest.
A historic map of Bunker Hill featuring military notes Sketch of the Battle of Bunker Hill, printed in August 1775. The colonial regiments were under the overall command of General Ward, with General Putnam and Colonel Prescott leading in the field, but they often acted quite independently. [ 99 ]
Svenska: Skiss över slaget vid Bunker Hill på halvön Charlestown den 17 juni 1775. Graverad av Jeffrys & Faden. London ... 1 aug. 1775. Dokumentet var en bilaga till von Asps depesch 1775 4/8 (finns i Riksarkivet: SE/RA/2102/I/36/383).
Map of the Battle of Bunker Hill Map showing Lake Champlain and Lake George Woodbridge house, 'Sycamores', a former dormitory for Mount Holyoke College. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge (March 5, 1739 – March 8, 1819) [1] was an American physician, lawyer, farmer, and military officer who served as a colonel in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War. [2]
Robinson fought from the redoubt on Breed's Hill under the command of Col. William Prescott of Pepperell, Massachusetts. His bravery and valor in outflanking a charge of British regulars along a low fence on Breed's Hill was noted by Prescott in an August 25, 1775 letter to Continental Congressman John Adams. "I commanded my Lieut Coll ...
Battle of Bunker Hill † Andrew McClary (1730 – June 17, 1775) [ a ] was an Irish soldier and major in the Continental Army during the American Revolution . McClary was born in Ulster, Ireland and came to colonial America with his parents at age sixteen where they lived on a farm in New Hampshire .
The whole monument is surmounted by a cannon in the imitation of "Hancock" or "Adams," - one of the guns Gridley served with his own hands at Bunker Hill. [ 3 ] Gridley is widely to be understood as one of the most distinguished military characters of New England, renowned for personal bravery, skilled artillerist, a scientific engineer, and a ...
Israel Putnam (January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790), popularly known as "Old Put", was an American military officer and landowner who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).