Elijah Hyde's eyewitness account of the Battle of Bunker Hill, within: Supplement to the New-York Journal, or General Advertiser Numb. 1695

by American Revolution

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

2pp. Broadsheet. Separations at folds. Item #378417 An early newspaper printing of the first detailed American eyewitness account of the Battle of Bunker Hill.Often regarded as the first major battle of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, some two months after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. In those intervening months, “the British army in Boston found itself besieged by an ad

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