History, Natural History & the Arts
The day after George Washington was made Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, Joseph Warren was made a Major General. He had been serving President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress, the highest position in that colony’s revolutionary government.
Three days later on June 17th 1775, Warren would be brutally killed and mutilated by the British at the Battle of Bunker Hill. [Read more…] about Battlefield Brutality: The Death of Dr. Joseph Warren
When news of the death of Dr. Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill reached the household of John Adams, Abigail Adams recited William Collins’ ode to the memory of a young British colonel killed thirty years earlier at Fontenoy: [Read more…] about Who Was Dr. Joseph Warren? Namesake of Warren County, NY
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