Bunker Hill

268–71
    lack of, 78, 234, 249–50, 267
    on the
Nancy
, 258
    officers of, 210–11
    regiments of, 197, 244, 246, 270–71, 276–77, 279, 290, 353n
    Attack and Defense of Fortified Places
(Muller), 273, 353n
    Attucks, Crispus, 128
    Avery, David, 179
    Back Bay, 14, 15, 63, 170, 177, 264, 266
    Baldwin, Jeduthan, 271–72
    Balfour, Nesbitt, 86, 166–67
    Bancroft, Ebenezer, 205–6, 218, 220, 228–29, 337n, 339n
    Barker, John, 102, 116, 128, 148–49, 152, 181–82, 317n, 325n
    Barré, Isaac, 31–32, 94
    Barrett, Amos, 141, 143–44, 327n
    Barrett, James, 132–36, 138–40, 143–44, 148
    Barrett, Rebeckah, 135–36
    Bassett, Burwell, 278
    batteries, 168, 254, 264, 276, 279, 281, 340n
    battle at North Bridge.
See
Concord: battle at North Bridge
    Battle of Bunker Hill
    artillery failures at, 244, 270
    bloody carnage of, 293, 342n
    and breastwork, 217, 223, 225–26, 229
    British army/navy and, 213, 230, 256–57, 343n
    and cowardice, 222–23, 277
    map of, 196
    monument built for, 292–93, 295
    and the rail fence, 217, 219–20, 222–27
    retreat of provincial army, 222–23, 228–30
    spectators of, 206–7, 210, 217, 219
    as watershed event, 236–37
    wounded survivors of, 253, 255
    See also
Breed’s Hill
    Battle of Chelsea Creek, 183–87, 190, 195, 199, 207, 336n
    Battle Road, 152–60, 223, 330n
    bayonets
    of British regulars, 124, 132, 157
    of infantrymen, 127, 147, 217
    of militiamen, 138–39
    of provincial army, 221, 226–27, 229
    surrendering of, 168
    Beacon Hill, 14, 15, 22, 30, 38, 116, 199, 229, 279
    Bedford, Mass., 122, 137–38, 147
    Belknap, Rev. Jeremy, 262, 322n
    Bernard, Gov. Francis, 68
    Beverly militiamen, 157
    Billerica, Mass., 99, 145, 201
    Bissell, Isaac, 167, 331n
    Black Horse Tavern, 118, 123, 150, 153
    Blanchard, Luther, 142
    Bliss, Daniel, 123
    Blockade of Boston
,
The
(Burgoyne), 266
    Blood, Thaddeus, 134, 143–44
    blunderbusses, 168
    Bolton, Dr. Thomas, 100
    Boston
    1776 assault on, 278–79, 282–83, 287
    accents of residents, 99
    black community of, 24
    burned by the British, 256, 349n
    casualties arrive in, 233, 349n
    chaos reigns in, 283, 355n
    description of, 177
    economic misery of, 41, 48, 52
    evacuation of, 283–87, 290
    first settlers of, 285
    and food supplies, 88, 233, 256, 318n
    loyalists remain in, 284, 288–89
    maps of, 12–13, 15, 254
    under military occupation, 7, 38, 51, 79, 96–97, 161–62, 177
    poor of, 52, 57, 70, 233, 311n
    residents die in, 233–34
    residents flee from, 111, 113, 161–62, 164, 168–69, 246–47, 321n, 332n
    surrounded, 161, 199, 249–50, 351n
    as third-largest port, 31
    topography of, 14, 15, 170, 237
    town gates of, 20, 71, 76–77, 82, 264
    Boston Common, 60, 78–79, 152
    British soldiers encamped on, 42–43, 56–57, 64, 77, 80, 177, 227
    and Bunker Hill anniversary, 292
    description of, 42–43
    location of, 15, 19
    powderhouse on, 62, 71
    “Boston Declaration,” 35–36
    Boston Gazette
, 22, 288
    Boston Harbor, 19, 26, 51, 234
    blockade of, 40–41, 87
    British control of, 161, 249
    and British evacuation, 283–85, 290
    description of, 170–71
    maps of, 13, 15, 63, 184, 196, 254
    military transports in, 169
    and the Port Act, 31, 40–41, 43, 70
    and the Powder Alarm, 64–65
    See also
Boston Tea Party; British supply ships; warships
    Boston lighthouse, 13, 257
    Boston Massacre, 61, 80, 128, 163
    aftermath of, 4, 8, 129
    anniversary of, 96, 277
    events leading to, 7–8, 11, 24, 37
    loyalist account of, 171
    site of, 19, 39
    and trial for, 4, 8, 32
    See also
Massacre Day Oration
    Boston merchants, 11, 41–42, 44, 48–49, 52, 183, 276, 285, 304n, 312n.
See also
specific names
    Boston Neck, 12, 15, 20, 63, 71, 76–77, 93, 102, 111, 118, 164, 170, 191, 254, 264
    Boston selectmen, 52, 55, 79–80, 87, 96, 175, 283, 287
    Boston Tea Party, 4, 9–11, 16, 22, 28, 30–31, 36, 41, 48, 55, 68, 137, 289, 304–5n
    Boylston, Mary.
See
Hallowell, Mary Boylston
    Braddock campaign, 28–29, 56, 238
    Braddock, Edward, 26
    Braintree, Mass., 12, 33, 183, 274, 279, 292
    Brattle, William, 62, 64–65, 69, 313n
    Brattle Street Meeting, 15, 46, 111, 310n
    Breed’s Hill, 69, 294
    army assembles on, 209, 223
    bloody carnage on, 201, 230, 234
    breastwork on, 196, 201–2, 205, 210, 213–14
    cannons on, 205–6, 210
    fighting on, 236, 249
    fortifications on, 198–206, 218, 224, 226, 337n
    location of, 196, 200
    rail fences on, 211, 213–14
    redoubt on, 196, 199, 201–6, 210–11, 337n
    Warren buried on, 287–88
    See also
Battle of Bunker