happy? - June 16 (Bunker Hill)

Subject: happy? - June 16
From: Abby Sale
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 01:16 PM


Battle of Bunker Hill (ie, Breed's Hill) began;

1000 Brits & 500 Freedom Fighters died

6/16/1775

          Let the foeman draw nigh till the white of his eye
          Comes in range of your rifles, and then let it fly,
          And show to Columbia, to Britain and fame,
          How justice smiles awful when freemen take aim.
  
                  "Ballad of Bunker Hill," Songs of Independence, Irwin
                  Silber, 1973 also sung by Sam Hinton on Library of Congress,
                  Bear Family Records, 1999

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