Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ument was laid in an angle of theold redoubt on Breeds hill. The base,a mass of fourteen thousand tons weight,is laid thirteen feet deep, and has sixcourses of stone to the surface, the firstof which is fifty feet on each side. Abovethis a pyramidal obelisk, thirty feetsquare, rises tapering, two hundred andthirteen feet four inches on the Ofround,and fifteen feet at the top. It is com-posed of eighty courses of stone, egchtwo feet eight inches thick. A windingstone staircase in the inside leads to thesummit, whence the view is fine andhighly interesting. The whole is builtof granite from Quincy. The largestblock in it is said to be eleven feet \in\^,two broad, and two feet eight indieshigh, with a weight of ten tons. After the battle of Bunkers hill, thecontinental troops were drawn in a morecomplete line around the town of Bos-ton ; and numerous intrenchments maystill be trcfced out on inost of the hills inthe vicinity ; but it was not till GeneralWashington had succeeded in occupy-
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91 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. ing Dorchester heicihts, which commanclthe harbor and town from the southeast,tliat the British forces embarked in theirships ;)jid evacuated the place. Dorchester heights were occupied onthe night of March 4,1776. Eight hun-dred men formed the van ; then followedcarriages, and twelve hundred pioneersunder General Thomas, three hundredcarts of fascines and gabions, and gunsin the rear. Two forts were formed byten oclock at night—one toward thecity, and the other toward Castle island.Preparations were made for an attackby the British, and for defence by theAmericans ; but the weajther preventedthe designs of the former, who consistedof ten thousand men, and they emliarked Ifor New York. The town was pillaged,and fifteen hundred loyalists were re-moved. It was evacuated on March 17,and ammunition, &c., left behind by theBritish. Bridges.—Some of the most strikingobjects in the neighborhood of Boston,are the bridges which lead from it

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