Two months after Lexington and Concord, some 15,000 New England militiamen ringed Boston, penning up General Thomas Gage’s professional army inside the town. When word leaked that the British meant to seize the high ground around Boston, the colonial council of war ordered Colonel William Prescott to fortify the Charlestown peninsula. On the night of June 16, about 1,200 men marched out with picks and shovels and dug a dirt fort on Breed’s Hill — closer to Boston, and far more exposed, than the Bunker Hill they’d been sent to hold...
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