... the opening Battles of Lexington and Concord in April, 1775, the colonials had engaged the British in what was commonly known as the Battle of Bunker Hill. Although technically a British victory, there were one thousand British casualties in the skirmish. In July, 1775, when George Washington arrived to take ... best officer in the King's service." As commander of the British troops in Boston, he showed great courage. As McCullough writes, "At Bunker Hill, assuring his troops he would not ask them 'to go a step further than where I go myself,' he had marched in the front line ... heate...

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... better disciplined, better equipped, and more regularly paid than his American counterpart further, the Redcoats were in far better health over all"(166-7). So with all these statistical advantages, how then could the Continentals possibly have won against the British? One of the stronger, yet simpler reasons ... the armies. For example, McCullough highlights the lives of specific Continental soldiers, like the brave Israel Putnam, a "hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill, who at fifty-seven was known affectionately as 'Old Put'" (34) and small soldiers like Private Joseph Martin, who a...

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The African-American and His Majesty's Army in the Age of the American Revolution "And I do hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, and others, (appertaining to Rebels), free, that are able and willing to bear arms, they joining His Majesty's ... to America. If the British hoped to sustain the conflict and subdue the colonies then great reserves of manpower were required. After the battle of Bunker Hill on June 17th, 1775, the British had been forced to evacuate Boston and earlier in the month Lord Dunmore had taken the decisive step ... was a mulatto; he was also the indenture...

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