Bunker Hill Monument
Granite obelisk on a Revolutionary War hilltop, climbed via two hundred ninety-four spiral stairs.
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This guide to the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston follows Joseph Warren, Massachusetts's newly commissioned major general, on the morning of June 17, 1775, choosing to fight as a private soldier rather than command, shouldering a musket beside farmers and craftsmen in the redoubt on Breed's Hill. Twice the defenders held their fire until the British lines closed in, and twice they cut them down. Listen for how his friend Paul Revere, also a dentist, later helped identify him among the dead.
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