Reviews for Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill
Review - Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill
Thrilling history.
Reviewed by Roger on 1999-12-16 08:52:34
Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hillby Richard M. Ketchum | |
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"U.S. History - Military" |
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| Pages: | 236 |
| Year of Publication: | 1962 |
| Date Read: | 10/09/1988 |
| Notes: | Small in terms of the number of soldiers participating, Bunker Hill nevertheless had all the drama —a pitched battle in which the pride of the British army, after being rowed across a body of water in full view of the mesmerized citizenry of Boston lined up as if on parade and marche din precise order up a hill to storm a fort by direct, frontal assault. The casualties were staggering, Nearly half of the scarlet-coated regulars fell in the attack, more than a third of the American defenders were killed, wounded or captured, and the relationship between mother country and colonies would never be the same again. |
| My Rating: | 10 |