Battle of Bunker Hill

Jeff, Luke and Jack discuss the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Episode Transcript

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What's she gonna do? Brother?When Jeff Townsend Media runs wild on you
America Stories. Alright, alright,alright, this is Jeff Townsend joining me

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or Luke and Jack for another episodeof America Stories. Guys, I appreciate
you joining on me for another one. The last episode was pretty fun that
we did. Guys. Yeah,they're taking a fort tychon drogo yep with
no pants on. So yeah,I took a lot away from that episode.
It was. It was the majorpoint. Yeah, yeah. And

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the propaganda artwork I've continued to checkout since then. So a lot of
propaganda back then it seemed like,yeah, good stuff. How do you
think the propagandas changed from then tonow? Like then you just had to
like write a book from charlsontime youhad to go to the paper and convince

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them to write a smear piece andstuff or just flat up write a slam
book against someone. It was,yeah, a lot more work. Even
the drawings back then, we're neat. They're definitely all loaded though they're definitely
sided on some side, but theyis. It's pretty cool to look at

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that, and that was a funepisode. So I'm excited to get the
showback on the road here and seewhat you guys have in store for this
week as we continue to go alongthe journey of the Revolutionary War. Where
we talked about the capture of theFort last week, So we're really only
a couple of weeks into the warsfor the timeline goes I believe, Yes,
yeah, the capture of the Fortwas like a mere three weeks I

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believe, after the battle Election andConcord, and then this is we're talking
about today, is the Battle ofBunker Hill, which took place just a
few weeks after that. Isn't thenthat takes place on fall Out four two.
It is, in fact, ifyou google Battle of Bunker Hill,

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follow Out four pops up before hRevolutionary War. If you don't, oh
complete, I thought I remember beinga mission on there, Like I know,
it's pretty certain. Yeah it was. It a full deal, was
DLC Or is it just like inthe base game? I don't know,

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great game though, it is.So what's so before we jump into what
we're talking about today, that gameactually does incorporate a lot of these things
we're talking about. Yea, Thenwe will talk about we have talked about,
like the theme of the Revolutionary Waris very strong in that game.
It is, in fact, there'sthe Minutemen are in that game. Yeah

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yea, so yep, Well,so what what do we have on the
radar? We all do we haveon we said, Bunker Hill? So
yeah, Bunker Hill. So inJune of seventeen seventy five, towards the
beginning of it, the colonial militiahad surrounded Boston. They had fifteen thousand

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troops surrounding the city, but theycouldn't starve out the British because they didn't
have the port. The British hadthe port. They had the largest navy
in the world, and obviously sothey had to think on lockdown they can
bring in as much food or suppliesthey wanted to keep bringing it in,
keep shipping it in. Yeah,And so it came down to like they

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knew they needed to get some gunssurrounding the city if they wanted to ever
attack. So they had long rangecannons and stuff like that, which a
lot of those were just seized fromFort Ticonderoga. So they were hoping to
get them down to Boston so thatthey can then bombard the ships and assault

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the city. How much longer wasthis exactly afterwards? Sorry if you said
it, I apologized. Oh,it was just a couple of weeks.
It was because they are They startedlike surrounding it at the start of June.
So yeah, it was just acouple of weeks later that they were
had Boston under siege, but theyhad a party and they immediately using these
supplies. They hadn't got them yet. Unfortunately, they're still long ways off

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traveling across country with cannons, muchslower than how fast people will go on
their own. In fact, ThomasGage, the general and Boston knew that
they didn't have the guns yet butwould soon, and so he realized he
needed to clear the colonials off thenearby hills overlooking the harbor, and that

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was Bunker Hill in Breed's Hill,because he knew that once they got those
cannons there, they could shell theboats, take out the harbor, and
then they could swarm in. SoI guess before we dive into this too
much, let's get let's get backto the what's the talk going on,
what's the thought process? How confidentare we we as in America the colonies?

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How how confident are we and what'sabout to transpire. I know,
this is kind of like a weirdsituation where it wasn't I guess it seemed
like this attack was like often delayed, but we kind of it was kind
of provoked. It's like, whatwas our strategy coming in to this?
So at this point, a largeportion we're hoping to simply get a settlement

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with the British, Like if theytake out like something like Boston, then
they were taking well, you know, this war will end because they want
they'll come to negotiations. Well,in fact, that seem like they were
swinging for a home run like thisis big, yeah, knockout blow in
the beginning of the first round ofthe fight, right and at that point,

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you know, then dog come tothe table with you and we talk
it out, you know. Andso that was their hope, and they
figured, well, we have themen here now. The British Army doesn't
have a ton of minute in Boston. All we are afraid of right now
are the guns on those ships.So too, they kind of were pretty

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feeling pretty good about this and theyjust needed to hold the line for a
few more days, wait for theguns to get there, and then take
Boston. It was at this pointthough, that Thomas Gage in Boston spoke
to his generals and they decided,his generals being William Howe and Henry Clinton,

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they decided that they should attack theColonials first. Don't let them set
up those guns and take out thosehills. So they knew, they knew
what was going on. It's amazing. It's amazing to me that I guess
you could call it scout work.Yeah, they knew that those guns were
coming, they knew that those hillswere going to be fortified, and because

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that made the most strategic sense tofire on the harbor. So Alan Clinton
decided they would marshall forces to goacross the harbor and attack the hills,
Breed's Hill being slightly closer. Theywere going to attack Breed's Hill first.
Once they decided on this plane ofaction, there was a spy in Thomas

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Gage's circle. No one knows whoactually, to this day, I don't
believe there's been a single person affairwho would found this out. Was somebody
tipped off the Colonials that the Britishwe're going to attack the next day or
yeah, the next day. Mymy bet is on someone named John Brown.

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How many more Don Browns cul comeacross? If you guys, I've
incorporated John Brown today, I shipmy pants. This is I don't know
how that was the best I couldcome up with. Tis done? There
might be another John Brown, theyseems like. Uh so. The major

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general in charge of the colonial armyon on the hill was a man named
Israel Putnam and his uh second commandwith a colonel named WILLIAMS. Prescott.
They decided that they were going toprepare for battle the next day as fast
as they could. Prescott had fifteenhundred men under him. That bill j

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an earthen fort on top of thathill that night. That fort was six
feet tall of dirt one hundred andfifty feet long. They did it all
on one night, and dug abunch of holes and trenches in front of
this hill to slow of the advance. And then he went out and took

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a steak one hundred feet away fromthe top of the hill, stuck it
in the ground, and told themthat if anyone passed that stake, to
shoot them. This was a sitethat the British actually were not expecting the
next morning. They did not believethat anyone could build a fort that fast,
with such a large amount of itthat it was, it was definitely

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not something that they had planned on. They said that they knew that this
was going to be now a costlyfight as instead of just rolling over the
Colonials. Was there any concern atall from the British slide at this point
in time as about the difficulty ofthis battle overall or just the war overall
or the battle, like what whatwere they thinking? Oh, they were

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definitely very concerned. Yeah, theyknew that this was this was a make
or break moment for either side asbut the British were way out numbered inside
of Boston they so they knew thatif they were to fail here, the
Colonials would overrun them. So yeah, this they knew this was a very

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very tough situation. So the nextmorning, this was June seventeenth, seventeen
seventy five, they saw the fortfor the first time and they knew they
still had to assault it no matterwhat. But what they tried to do
was simply blasted from the harbor withtheir boats and coastal brideries. But they

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were firing uphill and at two fourwasn't from the harbor it was I don't
know the exact distance, but itwas a pretty decent amount. It was
so far that their cannons on theirboats couldn't make it, but they had
a psychological effect and caused some ofthe clonal militia to actually flee. A

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good portion of them actually fled atthis point, just to turn the cannons
go off and just yeah, andseeing all the troops massing at the water's
edge, that's when General Howe commandeda march to take the hill. Prescott
knew that they also had a verysmall amount of bullets, and he said

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they had to make every bullet count. And he said that now famous phrase,
don't shoot until you see the whitesof their eyes. He said.
Basically, they wanted them to beas close as you can do is you
have to be able to see theireyes before you fire. That way they
don't miss. This seems like avery u like just a roll of the

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dice attempt here. It's like it'sgoing all in so early and you're not
obviously the preparation, weaponry wise inand strategically it's just not there. Yeah.
Actually, I wanted to point outback to the when they were prepping
the fort with the with the stakesin the ground. It kind of reminds

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me of like old you know,maybe like archery range finding to some degree,
where they would defend forts with verysimilar tactic, but they get determined
how far things are out, andthey would put the stakes out a certain
number of paces away from the castlewalls. So I wonder, you know,

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if I was kind of going throughhis head, was yelled those kind
of like old ways of defending fortifications. But again, though, it's like
we're gonna pull off, We're gonnado this overnight. It seems like that
seems to be a common I guessyou, I don't know much. I
don't know how like beneficial it isto get too far ahead of it,
but it seems like, hey,we're gonna try to pull off this miracle

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overnight. Again. Yeah, Iwas feeling they kept doing it over and
over again. And actually it's kindof interesting to see up until this point
that the British probably almost didn't onehundred percent still take it und like this
is not like a real army.We're fighting here, and like we're we've
got to advance, we got totake this thing. They were they took
the combat seriously, but it seemedlike they were specifically the colonial militia.

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Uh, this isn't like a enemyforce that we're really dealing diplomatically. They
weren't terrified, right we In Boston, Thomas Gage could see the new earthworks
on the hill with a spyglass andhe so he was watching it from within
the city and he turned to oneof his staff. It was a loyalist,

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you know, American who was actuallyColonel Prescott's brother in law, the
one on top of the hill.He turned to him and says, will
he fight? And uh, hesaid of his men, I don't know,
but Prescott will fight you all theway to the gates of Hell.
It's a kind of guy you oneon your side. Yeah, he knew
his brother in law was going tofight back, and he was gonna do

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everything he could to hold the Britishoff. So is this spyglass thing like
the early modern like binoculars that youalways see like, yeah, well you
see like the guy on the pirateboat or whatever, and like pictures like
all of those things made of Anyway, I always wondered that, you know,
I guess it's almost like a telescope. Maybe I actually want to get
those spyglass real bad because I dowant to know like how is the lens

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work inside there and everything. Butbut yeah, it was basically like that
kind of like you know, yeah, should it up and you could pull
it out? Yeah, yeah,I know what you're talking about. Yeah,
And so you know, this isthis is interesting because like you know,
Broston is you know, on oneside of this harbor, on the

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other side over the hills, butthere's also a town there, Charleston is
right there. So there are twotowns within, like you know, spitting
distance of each because you can seethrough a spy glass you can see atop
of this hill, and Charleston isdirectly next to this hill. And this
actually plays into a probably the Britishface almost immediately because unknown to them in

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Charlestown, there are some long riflehunters out there. These men were bird
hunters, and they were specialized inshooting birds at midflight, and they were
up in the church towers and otherhigh buildings and could actually shoot and kill
the British way further out than thepeople on top of the hill could,

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and they were aiming for their officers. So how ordered the burning of Charleston.
He got the boats to swing about, to start blasting with their cannons
and to ignite the town. Howsuccessful was it. It was stop the
snipers because it killed a lot ofthem, but also there was smoke a
fire, and the smoke sorry billingup. He hoped that the smoke would

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blow towards the hill, but thewind kicked up in a weird way and
it blew it behind it, andeveryone described it as this almost like haunting
backdrop, the little color of thesmoke he gets the sky and everything had
a bizarre effect that they were marchingtowards. So there were fifteen hundred men

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on a hill and the British hadthree thousand veterans, British grenadiers. They're
some of their best soldiers marching upit, and they make their first march
up the hill and you know,this is one of those things that like

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they did back then, and itdoesn't make sense now, why march over
open ground, up a hill towardspeople with firearms. And obviously what happened
was a volley of musket fire thatthe scene was described as if a scythe
cut through wheat in a field justimmediately a hundred or more men fall to

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the ground bleeding out. Were theyjust not like expecting for the for the
militia to fight that way? Ibelieve that it was something of as where
I'm looking for a cocky attitude thatseeing their red coats and their you know

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gear coming at you, that youwould be afraid and you would burn away.
Because that is part of how theBritish Army won, and that's why
they wore their distinctive outfits, isbecause you knew you were fighting a professional
army and that a lot of peoplewould just run off, especially uh not
regulars. These are militia right asso these are farmers and they must have

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just as farmers with nothing to lose. But they didn't take into account that
these people had nothing to go backto. You know, this was their
thing they wanted to fight for,and so they didn't break, they didn't
run away, and they killed alot of British in that first wave.
They they had to bridge regrouped,they ran back, uh you know,

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their officers tried to regain control.A bunch of officers were killed in that
first volley, of like junior officersand that was the actual was. One
of the major costs of this battlefor the British is how many officers they
lose, because you're not really supposedto kill the officers, right, No,
Yeah, in fact, it's it'suh considered bad form to kill an

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officer in battle. You're supposed tokill the soldier. This is uh kind
of like going back to that whatwe're talking about the drawings of Techno Roga.
There's also several portions obviously of BunkerHill, and they kind of shows
and the like a depiction of whathas been described as far as it's just

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like hill just completely covered in thislike smoky backdrop and then just like rows
and ranks of file of redcoats chargingup hills and and just you know,
being shot from from a top ofthe hill. And so you can kind
of like just look through any ofthe Bunker Hill drawings and kind of see,

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you know, exactly what you canimagine from that. From that battle,
the British tried again to march upthe hill. They marched over their
dead and wounded double pace to tryto get up there faster this time,
assuming that at a rapid rate theymight get up there and spook them.

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They're still effectively trying the same tactic, scaring the militia, getting them to
break. It didn't work. Theywere shot again, slaughtered in a large
amount. By this point they hadlost over five hundred men at least they
are dying and bleeding out on thisground. But we're also running out of

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bullets, right, I mean,we're we don't have that much ammunition to
support a long term battle here.And actually, at this point, how
did not know how few bullets thecolonials had. He was still believing they
may possibly have as many bullets ashe has, and so as far as
he knows, they have like,you know, enough to win the whole

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day. But he does realize atthis point that this is the last shot
they have. They have to takethis hill now or Boston will be lost,
and that means, you know,likely he'll be executed, Gage will
be executed and the British Army isgoing to lose. Which as a British

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officer of high rank, very proudman, he did not want the British
Army to besmirched. He definitely didn'twant to be with his name tied to
it. But he didn't realize thatthe Colonials had used most of their powder
and shot, so he was effectivelysending his men up there to die.
He knew that was a strong possibility, but this time he had them take

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off all their packs, all theircanteens, and all their powder horns,
and had them put their bayonets on. And he was just going to have
them charge up with just the bayonetsand tried to kill everyone in a melee.
Because of that, they were ableto run up the hill at a
breakneck speed, and by the timethey got up over the hill, the

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last the Colonial bullets had been firedand it was an absolute slaughter. They
immediately broke over the top of thatearthen works and butchered them with bayonets.
At this point, the Colonials hadno choice. They had to retreat or

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lose everyone. They don't they don'thave like band, They didn't really have
the hands on hand melee. TheColonials actually had no bayonets at all.
Wow, so they were not preparedfor a melee. They weren't prepared for
up a close combat like that.And by the end of it, the

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British do when they over random atBreed's Hill and the cost of it was
a thousand British soldiers and all ofHow's command staff. Yeah, it was
a lot, a lot of people. The Colonials lost four hundred men by

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the end of it. This wasall, oh, victory, but not
a great victory. They've forced theColonials off the top of that hill.
But now they've lost so much material, they've lost ben and they've lost experienced
officers. So this war, whichwasn't going great for either side, still

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isn't. But we went the Colonialson the retreat. The British can't do
anything, they can't pursue and theycan't finish it off. So it's like
so it's like a win for thefor America in a sense that it proved
again I guess again that we're ableto battle with these guys. We have

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defense, but literally they have toretreat because they just can't fight. But
in some sense it's like a spiritedvictory. I guess, yeah, it's
it's it's called a pirate victory andmilitary circumstances, it was a victory for

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the Britain in the in the sensethey got what they wanted, but the
cost was so great that they weren'tgoing to win anything more. Yeah,
and uh this led though to theunfortunate end of any chance of diplomacy.
The very next moment the king hadheard about all this, he declared every

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person in the colonial militia traders,there would be no negotiations. They would
all be treated the same, andso everyone was going to hang together.
And you know, it's actually kindof interesting to think that this was like
like this is like the first realthe first real battle, right, because

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there's been like there's been some skirmishsystems and fights, there's like, uh,
you know, the protests of thatkind of escalated into something bigger.
But and then tech Hono Roga wasthere was no there was no killing of
Techno Roga. And but this waslike a full on one military against another.

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And so this was like when youI think both sides probably fully realized
that this was not just some protestor something that we're just trying to get
point across. This is like thisis officially a war, you know,
like it's like the war has hadalready been gone, but this is like
the first real, real battle here. And there was a lot of a

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lot of people died in that inthat first battle, there I love when
I read some interesting facts about this. They always have like a I'm reading
on this website always have like amissing section, like people go missing,
and make sure you wonder at thispoint in time, because like you're here
in America, right. I guessyou could just run home. I mean,

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Reddish honestly can't do that. ButI do wonder that if the missing
is really just people who did roncoming, you know, you could see
that you could see someone who waslike, you know, I don't know
what if I actually want to dothis. They might have ran off or
or or it could be the samewhere they died and they just didn't They

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couldn't figure out who was who Iremember, I remember the name, but
I remember something else about this becausethere was some sight seers of this event.
People were actually watching this event,right, yes, because I mean
something you wouldn't see every day,a battle in your backyard basically, you

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know, Yeah, there was apresident that watched that. I leave,
h I am trying to remember whowho actually saw. It's hard. I
can't remember, but one of themdid or all lived in the area.
I got it here. I'll breakthis part down, Yeah, cut out

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the battle here and Boston, aneighboring communities. Curious colonialist climbed roofs,
steeples and hills to watch the battleunfold ten miles south of Bunker Ten miles
south of Bunker Hill, seven yearold John Quincy Adams stood next to his
mother Abigail, atop a hill nearhis childhood home and heard the thunder claps
of cannon fire and watched the smokerise from the battlefield. Yeah. Yeah,

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so that so there's actually like peoplewere watching this. I mean the
future presidents were watching this. Yeah, that's it was intense. Afterwards,
Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to afriend he had in England the names escaping
me. But he said that afterthe Battle of Breeds and Bunker Hill were
no longer friends but bitter enemies.And so Ben Franklin, a guy who

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has been preaching you know, diplomacyat all costs this whole time, finally
declares, ye know that he's enemies. What's someone he knows in England?
Over this? You can't realize justhow a monumentous event was. Isn't there
like a lot of debate over whokilled one of the British majors during this,

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Yes, I can't remember which oneit was, but there was actually,
uh you know, possibility of afew different people that might have killed
him. Oh, I believe theremay have been even talked that he may
have been killed by friendly fire.I can't remember. Now there's a lot
of debate on that. So goingback to some of the aftermath, this

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just into a little bit more deytill what are the British thinking now?
We talked about how like there was, we talked about how they're pissed off
and they're like, hey, thisis a war, so we know peace
talk or whatever, but how doesthere like, how did they shift focus
or how do they like what's nextfor the British tagically after this? So

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the British need to are planning onrolling up the rest of the colonial lines
to break that siege. There's stillover ten thousand or more men in their
way from doing that, but theyno longer have the high ground. They
are being pushed away. There arereinforcements on the way for the British.

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They know that much. Oh andso they know that they can't be taken
in Boston and they are going totry to sweep the board clean. They
need to get rid of the restof those colonial army, and Gauge actually
talks about hiring foreign mercenaries at thispoint, namely German soldiers and such,

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to help sweep the board clean withoutcosting two many more British lives. You
know, I could have had moreJohn Brown's. Yeah, you didn't have
some John Browns we needed. Everyoneneeds a little more Job Brown in their
lives. Shifting foot, So let'stalk about the colonialist side. Now,

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what's what's on the mindset after this? Honestly, a defeat, like it's
it's crazy because like the victors alwayshim a mic, the victors always get
a right history. It seems likeso like this was a defeat technically,
but yet when we write this outin American history, it's like almost like

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triumph over overcome all the odds.We stood the test, we stood up
against the British army. It wasa defeat, though, But so what
is the discussion next, What isgoing on the founding fathers at this point
in time and all that. Sothis was actually a pretty big moral blow
against the clorialists because these farmers areseeing that no matter how hard they tried,

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the British army kept coming and theyyou know, that's what I'm saying,
Like, when we write history here, it just we shape and the
history books and stuff, a lotof research will do it's kind of shape
differently. Yeah, but put yourpoint. It was a moral blow here.
Yeah, they at this point theywere scared. They thought, well,
now we may all die. Andyou know when they when it comes

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through that the king declares everyone atrader. Uh then they're like, even
if we don't get killed in battle, if we lose, then we're gonna
die, you know. And uhso, yeah, this caused a lot
of desertions. This caused a lotof you know, panic to spread.

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And you know, the colonial armyisn't fully trained yet. There's mostly militia
and so like they don't have aregulars yet or not very many, and
so like the regulars can't keep orderand the you know, the officers are
haven't tried hard a hard time keeporder as well. And so yeah,
this was this was pretty bad,even though they didn't lose nearly as many

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men. Losing that hill, uhreally sitting into a tailspin. And now
it was up to the military leadersin place to try to keep the soldiers
in line and up to the statesmanto try to keep the populace on their

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side, and it was it wasgonna be an uphill battle for him at
this point. What the hell wasGeorge Washington up to you right now?
I don't believe George Washington was actuallya part of the fight. He was
a closer we approaching that He's justhe's just coming up this point in time.

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Yeah, he's still running his form, but it was definitely coming up
because we're getting closer to the nextCongress meetings and then planning what to starting
to realize they need but this iskind of like proof that that they need
somebody. Yeah, and uh,things do change, but right at this

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point, it's a pretty bleak momentfor the colonial army. And you know,
as you're saying that they need issomeone like a like a symbol or
someone to rally behind. It's interestingthat some people were trying to be that
like Prescott, right and probably asweird as it seems now I've been,

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uh, but as Arnold was probablytrying to be that person. Yeah,
where the hell is Benny Dick?Dare? Where is Bennie Dick? He
returned to make it back. Yethe gave up after took his commission.
It's too took his ball and hewent home. He come back. Though
he was not participated in this one, he does have one another big thing

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in the So, yeah, toyour there were people trying to step up
and be that guy. Yeah,and I guess, you know, for
one reason another they just weren't.They worked quite well. Maybe it just
it was just hard to outdo Washington. Uh, you know, obviously everyone
everyone loves George Washington once he wason the scene. That though, brings

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us pretty much to the end ofthe Tale of Bunker Hill. And then
the next time we're we are goingto hear more from the statesman because they
have work to do that the soldierscan't do, and because George Washington is
more than just a soldier. Hehas both a statesman and a soldier.

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He does make his rounds and boththe diplomatic circles and the combat circles.
He's really one of the more interestingpeople to learn about, and I can't
wait to hear more about him.Yeah, before we dive into like his
introduct we also need to get likea little bit of a backstory because the
cool thing about George Washington, ishe uh, obviously fought right for the

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other side and didn't get exactly therecognition that he wanted. And I think
that's kind of like, well,I don't want to get too far ahead
of myself, but I think hekind of like maybe saw a little bit
of himself and Bennedict Arnold. Asfar as that ambition goes, that's definitely
a pretty accurate assumption. I wouldsay, Jack, let's hear from you.

(35:35):
Okay, you can find us inAmerica Stories dot us. Did I
pick up on the right? Que? Was I supposed to say? Social
media? For me? What canyou add to this on the website?
What are you plan on adding anygood visuals or anything, Jack, to

(35:55):
go along with what we've talked about. For sure, we'll definitely pick out
some image that we can use andwe'll put them on put them on this
episode there. And also you canfollow us on Twitter and America story Pod.

(36:17):
Oh yeah, it's xx America storyat America story Pod X. Gonna
give it to you. Yes,listening to that the other day actually,
So we also have an email outthere. Is it is that America Story
Pod at gmail dot com. Idon't even remember early. Uh, let's

(36:37):
see, I know it as well. It is America Stories Pod at gmail
dot com. Yeah, any commentsor anything you want to chime in,
or any questions or anything you'd liketo see covered a little bit more detail.
We definitely jumped into bunker Hill here, and I know we speed through
these. We try to keep itlike over and a half an hour.

(36:59):
A lot happened more than we covered, so we'll try to get some extra
stuff up and anything else that's someextra play, so interesting bits that will
add on to the show notes.And I just I can't believe there wasn't
a John Brown this week. Likeyou kind of gave a smile, Luke,
like you might hold something out ofyour sleeve, but you never did.
Oh, I'm actually thinking about thefact that that's not not my wheelhouse.

(37:22):
That'll be Jack doing that. Yeah, Jack, you need to figure
out a way to tie in andJohn Brown. Surely there could have been
a somebody fighting name John Brad atthis all. I was pretty common.
There were a thousand people there aremore, so, I mean it's got
a bit. Someone was probably namedJohn Brown. I wish I was named
John Brown. Anyways, we'll goahead and we'll get one. We'll get

(37:46):
this closed up here and get outof here. But yeah, thanks for
checking out the podcast. We appreciatethe support. We're having a fun time
doing it way back. With thenext episode, we'll get a little bit
further into the American Revolutionary War hereand I'm excited about it. So thank
you guys for joining me in foranother America story. Until next episode,
keep being you and keep being great. Got the kind of face everybody knows.

(38:16):
Run around being flu in schools,go into jair and you like your
finding the road and you do that'swrong, people, got a big bull,
the dangers find an inside. Tothe best of us, take it
what day wrong? Like I saidto some of us do the best weekend.

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Some of must do the best JeffTownsend Media seezy good night. And

(39:13):
the question is do I stay here? Will you be back? Are you
gonna come back? Will you beback? Are you coming back?