Timothy Riordan, Ph.D., historian and vice president of the Charlestown Historical Society in Massachusetts, said the average age of the men fighting the British Army was 27 years old. With Riordan's ...
The ‘Battle of Bunker Hill’, which took place on June 17th 1775, was the first time New England soldiers faced the British army in a pitched battle during the American Revolution. Fought outside of ...
On June 17, 1775, British infantrymen assembled at the base of Breed’s Hill, one of two promontories that comprised the Charlestown Heights outside of Boston. The other, Bunker Hill, saw little ...
BOSTON’S ICONIC LANDMARK COMPLETED IN 1842, HAS BEEN AROUND SO LONG SOME LOCALS MAY TAKE IT FOR GRANTED, BUT THIS 221FT OBELISK, WHICH PREDATES THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT BY MORE THAN 40 YEARS, WAS ...