Excerpt from Bunker Hill: The Story Told in Letters From the Battle Field by British Officers Engaged
"Borne over the Atlantic, to the closing ear of Louis, King by the grace of God, what sounds are these; muffled, ominous, new in our centuries? Boston Harbor is black with unexpected Tea; behold a Pennsylvanian Congress gather; and ere long, on Bunker Hill, Democracy announcing, in rifle-volleys death-winged, under her Star Banner, to the tune of Yankee-doodle-doo, that she is born, and, whirlwind-like, will envelop the whole world!" - Carlyle.
The story of the battle of Bunker Hill has been told until it has become more familiar to American readers than Marathon or Waterloo. No subsequent field of the War for Independence possesses an equal interest with this first and fiercest grapple for the mastery. The unparalleled audacity of the seizure of the heights of Charlestown, in the presence of a numerous and powerful army and fleet; the unflinching firmness with which the Americans awaited the attack; the terrible loss inflicted on the enemy, unexampled on any later battle-field of the Revolution; and, finally, the curious spectacle of undisciplined yeomanry, without a leader known and respected as such, contesting with a veteran army and experienced officers, are marked features that at once suggest themselves to the student of the battle, and have rendered it for all time a memorable deed of arms.
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