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May, 1775 AD (search for this): entry bunker-hill-battle-of
Bunker Hill, battle of.
By reinforcements from England and Ireland, General Gage's army in Boston, at the close of May, 1775, was 10,000 strong.
With the reinforcements came Gens. William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, and John Burgoyne, three officers experienced in the military tactics of Europe, but little prepared for service in America.
Thus strengthened, Gage issued a proclamation (June 12) of martial law, and offering pardon to all who should return to their allegiance, except Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
At that time the New England army before Boston numbered about 16,000 men, divided into thirty-six regiments, of which Massachusetts furnished twenty-seven, and the other three New England colonies three each.
John Whitcomb, a colonel in the French and Indian War, and Joseph Warren, president of the Provincial Congress, were appointed (June 15) major-generals of the Massachusetts forces.
These provincial troops completely blockaded Boston on the land side, and effectivel