Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Col. William Prescott” in entry bunker-hill-battle-of of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...o Dorchester Heights, south of Boston.
Both of these points would command the town.
The eager provincials determined to anticipate this movement, and the Massachusetts committee of safety ordered Col. William Prescott to march, on the evening of the 16th, with 1,000 men, including a company of artillery, with two field-pieces, to take possession of and fortify Bunker Hill.
This force, after a prayer by President...
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