Show THE BATTLE or OF BUNKER HILL HILI on this day years ago there happe appe IMI ar an event known to every 0 hid in america as one that n h I 1 i life has thrilled him with in being an american that e wk we are told ty by the united 0 re e washington r I was the battle at 01 hll the first real battle of t can revolution E y v boy or girl torn or taught ram mii country knows the story ot of little army of patrols patr oits wh who dar ly ahat hat was then the great in am li y po er on earth th tny it ri inear descendants alth 2 in a land tree free and 0 v the were driven irom from leir rude redoubt only when their in 11 was vaa gone and they were a it 1 I 1 i to lie be overpowered by over I 1 gitig rs of the best train aop oo 00 ot at burcope c charging with e L know that the patriot i li i u i wounded and i j via hers these losses occurred i c r so 30 nuch much during the action hut but ans during the retreat when A i 1 k jors for or freedom had neither 13 ts to defend themselves nor awde p r for or their deadly marksman 11 i IL L though in a technical i y the outcome was scored dertat deli at for the patriots while t ii have the power to tight fight y alt such blows to their one 1 I nad iod od an effect oil oa all the tha ies lie ie var ar indeed it Is only now i the mady years that mill h are alila able to calculate moral effect of the battle of i 1 hill on the whole atter after of 0 british military operations the revolution 1 11 recent years bunker hill h bt b n traditionally regarded as a v i scant but futile gesture on pa t of the patriots not so a military action as the sub ot or poems and the inspiration tor for let L c speeches now the stude ta s 0 oi military history concede that T kill hill had profound influence Indi ence on after events and was one of the inibig points in the tt bt ruggle tor for independence PT |