Bunker Hill

Hill
    Brewer, Jonathan, 180, 245
    Brighton, 162, 215
    Britannia
, 184, 186
    British dragoons, 256, 285
    British goods, boycotting of, 7, 37, 41–42, 44, 47–48, 58, 75, 82–83, 85, 255
    British grenadiers, 115–16, 122, 128–29, 144, 146–47, 221–23, 226, 228
    British light infantry, 115
    and Battle of Bunker Hill, 196, 223–25
    at battle of North Bridge, 135, 143, 145–48
    at Concord/Lexington, 116, 122–24, 126–29
    established by Gage, 26
    as flank guards, 145–48
    important role of, 216–17
    at Lexington fight, 325n
    See also
Welch Fusiliers
    British marines, 87, 123, 185–86, 317n
    British ministry, 7, 29, 34, 44, 80, 94, 113, 237, 262, 345n
    and account of Concord/Lexington, 188–89
    arrest patriots, 111–12, 115
    calls colonials’ bluff, 321n
    colonies’ opposition to, 6, 59, 190
    and Government Act, 41–42, 52–53
    military preparations of, 255–56
    repeals acts, 49, 112, 321n
    British navy, 31, 43, 61, 78–79, 89, 158, 256–58, 283–84.
See also
warships
    British officers, 87, 89, 93, 96, 99–100, 117, 128–29, 143, 208, 282–83.
See also
casualties; commissions;
specific names
    British regular army
    abandons Boston, 237
    arrival of, 7, 42–43, 49, 51
    and Boston Massacre, 7–8, 11
    bravery of, 225
    defeats of, 186, 190
    difficulties faced by, 219, 221–23, 227
    encamped in Boston, 57, 86, 161–62, 169, 177, 183, 189, 249, 255, 257, 332n
    evacuation of, 283–87, 290
    fires first shots, 141–43, 168
    graveyard for, 80, 126
    growing unrest of, 89
    quarters for, 79–80, 87
    steals valuables, 145, 147, 158, 284
    supplies for, 87, 249, 257–58, 283, 317n
    and tensions with Bostonians, 86, 126
    during winter of 1775–76, 255–56, 258–59
    British supply ships, 87, 245, 249, 258, 268, 290
    broadsides, 22, 25, 50, 248, 264–65
    Brookline, Mass., 63, 158, 254
    Brooks, Joshua, 142
    Brooks, John, 202, 204, 338n
    Brown, Abijah, 180
    Brown, David, 142
    Brown, John, 140
    Brown, Jonas, 142
    Brown, Peter, 200, 202, 210, 224
    Buckman’s Tavern, 119, 121–22, 125, 127–29
    Bunker Hill, 69, 260
    battle named after, 199
    and British army, 182, 215, 234, 249, 265
    fortifications on, 197–98, 205, 213–14, 234, 286
    and gunpowder supplies, 174, 332n
    location of, 196–97
    and Percy’s brigade, 159, 197
    and provincial army, 208, 210, 212–13, 215, 218–19, 222–23, 225, 230
    See also
Battle of Bunker Hill
    Burbeck, William, 172–73
    Burdoo, Eli and Silas, 324n
    Burgoyne, John, 189–91, 203, 206–7, 217, 219–20, 234, 266, 340n
    Burke, Edmund, 255–56
    Buttrick, John, 136, 140–44, 342n, 343n
    Byles, Rev. Mather, 288
    Cambridge, Mass., 14, 67, 116–18, 122, 183
    and Battle of Bunker Hill, 202, 204, 208, 214–15
    and Battle Road, 158
    boatbuilding in, 170, 276, 332n
    bridge leading to, 102–3, 150, 243, 330n
    British plan to attack, 191, 197, 208
    council of war meets in, 164, 272
    description of, 179
    headquarters in, 161–65, 168, 172, 175, 186, 191, 208, 250, 287
    maps of, 12, 63, 114, 254, 269
    militiamen in, 168–69, 173, 175–76, 178–79, 181–82, 236, 246
    and taking of Dorchester, 276–77
    Tory Row in, 63, 65, 72, 240–41, 252
    See also
Powder Alarm
    Cambridge Common, 63, 65, 69–70, 195, 197, 215, 254
    Canada, 5–6, 26–27, 53, 201, 229, 249, 284, 289.
See also
Quebec, Canada
    cannons, 93, 99
    of British army, 76, 78–79, 154, 168, 191, 198, 200–3, 205–6, 212, 218–21, 225–26, 249, 339n
    and British marines, 186
    embrasures for, 205–6
    firing of, 209–10, 218, 223, 270, 278
    at Fort Ticonderoga, 173
    and fortifications, 205–6, 275
    and grapeshot, 219, 225, 280
    and hotshot, 218
    lack of, 78, 172–73, 195
    for new Continental army, 268–72, 276–77, 352n
    of provincial army, 115–17, 135, 139, 205–6, 209–10, 213, 223, 290
    and siege warfare, 248
    and “spiking the guns,” 284
    stolen by patriots, 78–79, 84, 115, 315n
    and taking of Dorchester, 276–79
    Captain
, 39–40
    Carlisle militiamen, 138
    Carpenter, Richard, 246
    Castle, 10, 12, 22, 30–31, 37, 62–63, 65, 68, 234, 254, 279–81, 283, 285–87
    Castle William.
See
Castle
    casualties
    of African Americans, 128
    of British officers, 226–27
    of British soldiers, 148, 157, 189, 221–25, 227–30, 233–35, 279, 316n, 342n
    of Continental army, 283
    of militiamen, 128–29, 140, 142, 148, 156–58, 168, 189
    of provincial army, 157, 223, 229–30
    Catholic Church, 11, 53, 121, 289
    Cerberus
, 184, 189
    Charles II, King, 5
    Charles River, 12, 14, 15, 63–65, 69–70, 103,