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| 2023-05-11 133 Viewing the Battle of Bunker Hill (1901), Howard Pyle; Brandywine Museum |
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Prior to his terms as President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson was a professor of history and political science at a number of colleges and universities. In this role, he wrote "Colonies and Nation," appearing in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1901, illustrated by this Howard Pyle painting. The article was a part of Wilson's five-volume A History of the American People, which included ten illustrations by Pyle. The Battle of Bunker Hill took place early in the American Revolution, on June 17, 1775, in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Colonists in Boston crowded onto rooftoops to view the nearby skirmish, which ended in a British victory. . [For most of the war, the Americans had no bayonets, the main weapon of land warfare at the time, mounted on their one-shot guns.] . [Told "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes," the Americans threw back two attacks, but ran out of ammunition on the third -- and lost the subsequent hand-to-hand fighting. The British, attacking uphill, won the grouind, but sustained over twice the casualties. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/bunker-hill] |