WITH REMARKS ON FROTHINGHAM’S HISTORY OF THE BATTLE. With an Appendix. BY S. SWETT. BOSTON: PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON, 21, School Street . 1850. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by S. SWETT, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts....

Thirty-two years since, though without any pretensions to be an author, we consented to write an account of Bunker Hill Battle, as a feeble contribution to the monument of fame that history owed our ancestors. But, we find, one may be an author in spite of himself; we have been compelled to address the public repeatedly in defence of our history, though never before with so great reluctance. By this time we hoped to enjoy the privilege of age, to exempt us from this task; and, notwithstanding ou

Page 7. According to Hon. Jos. Allen, late of Worcester, Samuel Adams, the proscribed patriot, said, “I have heard some people find fault with Gen. Ward, for intrenching on Breed’s Hill, so near the enemy, without any fortifications in their rear; but the world does not know how much that man is to be justified for so doing; for he had secret intelligence from Boston, by means of spies, that the British were about to take possession of Dorchester Heights; and, to divert them from their object, a