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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] Pennsylvania Ledger and Weekly Advertiser, 1 July 1775. Philadelphia: James Humphrys, Jr. 4 page, folio, disbound, printed in three columns.
DRAMATIC EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
“The army of Britain sallied out , and were then engaging our people, who had attempted a lodgment on Bunker’s Hill…the Regulars were twice repulsed with excessive slaughter, and finally gained the lines with the loss of seventy officers killed and wounded, and 1000 men. Our men have entrenched on an eminence in Charlestown about three quarters of a mile from the enemies encampment. We have lost sixty men, and upwards of an hundred wounded. Our troops are in high spirits, and eagerly wish for another trial. We have met with one capital loss; our worthy friend Doctor Warren was slain in the trenches, bravely struggling for the liberties of his country.” Contemporary newspaper accounts of this historic battle are rare.
DRAMATIC EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
“The army of Britain sallied out , and were then engaging our people, who had attempted a lodgment on Bunker’s Hill…the Regulars were twice repulsed with excessive slaughter, and finally gained the lines with the loss of seventy officers killed and wounded, and 1000 men. Our men have entrenched on an eminence in Charlestown about three quarters of a mile from the enemies encampment. We have lost sixty men, and upwards of an hundred wounded. Our troops are in high spirits, and eagerly wish for another trial. We have met with one capital loss; our worthy friend Doctor Warren was slain in the trenches, bravely struggling for the liberties of his country.” Contemporary newspaper accounts of this historic battle are rare.