The Bunker Hill Monument that towers above Charlestown is one of Boston's most well-known historic markers. But a group of Charlestown residents say it isn't a sufficient recognition of the first ...

OUR TED WAYMAN IS IN CHARLESTOWN. THESE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. THEY SAY THEIR RELATIVES ARE AMERICAN HEROES. I THINK ABOUT MY FIFTH GREAT GRANDFATHER, ...

On June 17, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British army in one of their first battles, on hilly pastures across the Charles River from Boston. In the engagement, popularly known as the Battle of ...

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WHEN the British forces retreated from Concord and Lexington on the 19th of April, 1775, they had but one way open to a place of shelter under the guns of their men-of-war, and that was through ...