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The siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. [5] In the siege, American patriot militia led by newly-installed Continental Army commander George Washington prevented the British Army, which was garrisoned in Boston, from moving by land.
The Siege of Boston. Macmillan. OCLC 3927532. Frothingham Jr, Richard (1851). History of the Siege of Boston and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Little and Brown. OCLC 221368703. Kales, David (2004). The Phantom Pirate: Tales of the Irish Mafia and the Boston Harbor Islands. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4184-5998-7.
The siege of Boston began on April 19, 1775, when, in the aftermath of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Colonial militia surrounded the city of Boston. [1] Benedict Arnold, a captain in the Connecticut militia, arrived with his troops to support the siege.
The major event in the Boston area in the first year of the American Revolution was the Siege of Boston from 19 April 1775 to 17 March 1776. The Continental Army under George Washington besieged British forces in the city.
Boston Post Rd. (State Street) MA-10 Wilbraham, MA Route 20 & Main Street MA-11 Palmer, MA 1 Wilbraham Street MA-12 Warren, MA Route 67 (Main St.) at the intersection with Washington St. MA-13 Brookfield, MA State Route 9 at the intersection with State Route 148 MA-14 Spencer, MA next to 117 Main St. [8] MA-15 Leicester, MA
Fort Independence is a granite bastion fort that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts, located on Castle Island.Fort Independence is one of the oldest continuously fortified sites of English origin in the United States.
The Roxbury High Fort site once contained earthwork fortifications of the Continental Army during the Siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary War. At that time Roxbury was an independent town connected to Boston by a narrow neck of land. The hill offered a great vantage of the entire area. In 1868 Roxbury was annexed to Boston. [2]
A 1945 map of the mine fields protecting Boston Harbor during World War II Battery Jewell's bunker, constructed during WWII. Battery Jewell's #2 gun emplacement. 90 mm M1 gun on T3/M3 fixed seacoast mount at Fort Monroe, Virginia.