The Battle Of Joseph Putman Analysis

On June 16th, the Americans got word that the British intended to protect the high ground on the point of the land that overlooked Boston. The Americans decided they had better take it over first, and on the evening of June 16, a small group of not more than three hundred men marched into the area, intending to build a fort on Bunker Hill. They decided, however, to construct the fort on nearby Breed’s Hill. All night the men sweated, and vowed to build a dirt wall six feet high. When the British awoke in the morning and saw the little fort on Breed’s Hill, they quickly began to bombard it from cannons on ships in the
They watched the redcoats roll steadily on toward the fortress along the shore. The sweating redcoats, each weighted down with
He was responsible to the Provincial Committee of Safety, a group of civilians who made broad military policy. Dr. Joseph Warren controlled the Committee, but he was not a military man, but the Provincial Congress elected him to the rank of the major-general just three days before the battle. General Israel Putman or ‘Old Put’ was a hard-bitten veteran of the ‘Old French War’ who commanded the Connecticut troops in the Cambridge sector of the American lines, who had suggested that the Charleston peninsula be seized and setting up a fort against the British in early May. ‘Old Put’ was obsessed with the idea of bringing the British to battle on ground where Americans would have the advantage of position. His argument, unfortunately, impressed neither Ward nor the Committee. Later, when word came out about British plans, Putman had repeated his idea and this time he had won Warren’s support. No one American officer directed the battle. Putman spent most of his time on Bunker Hill
When the Revolutionary War broke out and we declared our independence from England, Allen turned the Green Mountain Boys into an independent organization of American patriots. Allen and his men joined Benedict Arnold in one of the most historic raids. At dawn on May 10, 1775, they captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake George in upper New York. They took the fort without a single shot being fired. Fort Ticonderoga was the first British owned fort to fall to the American colonists. The fort was important because it was a storehouse of guns and ammunition, which were badly needed by the Americans. They captured canons which later allowed George Washington to drive the British troops out of Boston, Massachusetts. After Allen’s triumph, he and his men took the post at