Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781332832378

Excerpt from Grandmother's Story of Bunker-Hill Battle: As She Saw It From the Belfry During the morning, the Americans had been strengthening their works. The redoubt was about eight rods square, the front overlooking the village at the foot of the hill. The top of'the parapet was about six feet from the level of the ground. Wooden platforms were placed on the inner sides for the men to stand-upon while firing. A breastwork was carried from a point near the north-east corner, in the direction of the Mystic River, for a distance of about one hundred yards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.