Excerpt from Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution: With Explanatory Notes and School History References Norms - The spirited sk-irm'ishesat Lexington and Concord, April 19th, encouraged the Massa chusetts Committee-of S'afetiy and the Council of war to seize the heights behind Charlestown, and thus anticipate a like movement proposed by the British for June r-8th. The troops organized at Cambridge, just after sunset, j-une 16th. And moved under r-heir commander, Col. Prescot'i}, for Bunker Hill; but, by advice of Engineer Gridley, Breeds Hill was substituted as more eligible for resisting a British landing. Putnam accompanied the expedition, returned to headquarters in the morning for reinforcements, regained the peninsula, with stark, and was conspicuously active in encouraging the troops during the day. Stark held the left, supplementing what was defective near the Mystic, while Prescott fought at the redoubt. A small trench had been begun, eastward f-r-om the entrance, t0'be returned nor-thwa-r-d and join'the main line. The presence of a small pond seemed partially to protect that flank, and there was no'time for more elaborate.ent-rench-ments. 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.