Israel Putnam

English: Israel Putnam (January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790) was an American army general who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) during the American Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783). Although Putnam never quite attained the national renown of famous heroes like Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone, in his own time his reckless courage and fighting spirit were known far beyond Connecticut's borders through the circulation of folk legends celebrating his exploits.

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  "Old Put" escaping from the British at Horseneck
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  Israel Putnam. From a painting by John Trumbull.
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  Israel Putnam portrait
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  Statue in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut, sculpted by John Quincy Adams Ward