Massachusetts colonel, who had urgently applied to Ward for
permission to go to the Hill, but was refused, three times ignored the
order of Putnam to come to his assistance--Putnam being from
Connecticut. See Frothingham's "Siege," 168, note.

[105] Adams Letters, 67.

[106] Bancroft, iv, 583.

[107] Bancroft, iv, 590.

[108] These quotations are from Lodge's "Washington," i.

[109] Adams Letters, 65.

[110] Sparks, "Writings of Washington," iii, 1.

[111] "Writings of Washington," iii, 491.

[112] "Writings of Washington," iii, 23.

[113] Lodge's "Washington," i, 138.

[114] Trevelyan's "Revolution," Part 1, 378, footnote.

[115] See Frothingham's "Siege," and Appendix III of Vol. 3 of the
"Writings of Washington." Both of these books quote Swett's "History of
Bunker Hill Battle."

[116] "Writings of Washington," iii, 491.

[117] "Writings of Washington," iii, 22.

[118] _Ibid._, iii, 71.

[119] Washington's correspondence with Major Christopher French is an
interesting instance of the patience of a great man with the impatience
of a small one.

[120] The letters that passed between Washington and Gage, and later
between him and Howe, are to be found in the volumes of his "Writings,"
and make interesting reading. Washington had at this time no prisoners
in his hands other than those taken as described, because the prisoners
of the 19th of April had been exchanged on the 6th of June.

[121] Fonblanque's "Burgoyne."

[122] "Writings of Washington," iii.

[123] "Writings of Washington," iii.

[124] _Ibid._

[125] Henshaw's "Orderly Book."

[126] _Ibid._

[127] Trevelyan's "Revolution," Part I.

CHAPTER XII

EVENTS IN BOSTON FROM JUNE TO DECEMBER, 1775

The history of events in Boston after the battle of Bunker Hill is of a
quite different tenor from that which we have just been considering.
From the time when the wounded, and the more distinguished of the dead,
were carried over from Charlestown on the evening of the seventeenth of
June, the sober truth struck home, not yet to the Tories and the common
run of officers, but to the generals. They were in a tight place, from
which it would be difficult to escape with credit.

They might--and some of them did--reckon it out by common arithmetic. If
it cost a thousand men to take a hill, and required another thousand to
garrison it when taken, how much could the British army master of the
rolling country that lay before its eyes? Be