Excerpt from General Israel Putnam: The Commander at Bunker Hill The question who is entitled to be considered as command ing in the battle of Bunker Hill is a strictly military one. No written orders concerning the events of the day are in exist ence. There is no proof that any ever did exist. It becomes necessary, therefore, to apply well-known principles of military law to the acts of the leaders themselves. 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.