Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Map: Bunker Hill

Map: Boston and Environs

Prologue: The Battle of Brooklyn

PART I: FROM RESISTANCE TO REBELLION

Chapter One: The Lexington Alarm

Chapter Two: Dr. Joseph Warren

Chapter Three: “The Butchering Hands of an Inhuman Soldiery”

Chapter Four: Weed of Slavery

Chapter Five: Gage’s Return

Chapter Six: The Loyal and Orderly People

Chapter Seven: A Well-Digested Plan

PART II: PRELUDE TO WAR

Chapter Eight: From the Penn to the Sword

Chapter Nine: Officers and Men

Chapter Ten: The Massachusetts Army

Chapter Eleven: Three Generals

Chapter Twelve: The Siege of Boston

PART III: THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

Chapter Thirteen: Charlestown Heights

Chapter Fourteen: First Light

Chapter Fifteen: Redcoats and Bluejackets

Chapter Sixteen: The Battle of Bunker Hill

Chapter Seventeen: Attack and Repulse

Epilogue: “We Are All Wrong at the Head”

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Also by James L. Nelson

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