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    The Battle of Bunkers-Hill
    The Battle of Bunkers-Hill
    The Battle of Bunkers-Hill
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    The Battle of Bunkers-Hill

    By H. H. (Hugh Henry) Brackenridge and Montrose Jonas Moses

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Battle of Bunkers-Hill - H. H. (Hugh Henry) Brackenridge

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      Title: The Battle of Bunkers-Hill

      Author: Hugh Henry Brackenridge

      Editor: Montrose J. Moses

      Release Date: June 26, 2009 [EBook #29225]

      Language: English

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This e-book contains the text of The Battle of Bunkers-Hill, extracted from Representative Plays by American Dramatists: Vol 1, 1765-1819. Comments and background to all the plays, and links to the other plays are available here.

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      HUGH HENRY BRACKENRIDGE

      PROLOGUE

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

      ACT I.

      ACT II.

      ACT III.

      ACT IV.

      ACT V.

      EPILOGUE

      AN ODE

      A SPEECH

      A MILITARY SONG

      THE BATTLE OF BUNKERS-HILL

      By

      Hugh Henry Brackenridge

      Hugh Henry Brackenridge

      HUGH HENRY BRACKENRIDGE

      (1748-1816)

      The battle of Bunker's Hill was an event which stirred whatever dramatic activity there was in America at the time of the Revolution. Therefore, a play written on the subject should not be omitted from a collection supposed to be representative of the different periods in American history and in American thought. The reader has an interesting comparison to make in Hugh Henry Brackenridge's play, which the title-page declares is A dramatic piece of five acts, in heroic measure, by a gentleman of Maryland, and a later piece entitled Bunker Hill, or the Death of General Warren, written by John Daly Burk (1776-1808), who came to America because of certain political disturbances, and published his drama with a Dedication to Aaron Burr (1797), the year it was given in New York for the first time.[1] It will be found that the former play is conceived in a better spirit, and is more significant because of the fact that it was written so soon after the actual event.

      It is natural that Hugh Henry Brackenridge should have been inspired by the Revolution, and should have been prompted by the loyal spirit of the patriots of the time. For he was the stuff from which patriots are made, having, in his early life, been reared in Pennsylvania, even though he first saw the light near Campbletown, Scotland, in 1748. His father (who moved to America in 1753) was a poor farmer, and Hugh received his schooling under precarious conditions, as many boys of that time did. We are given pictures of him, trudging thirty miles in all kinds of weather, in order to borrow books and newspapers, and we are told that, being quick in the learning of languages, he made arrangements with a man, who knew mathematics, to trade accomplishments in order that he himself might become better skilled in the science of calculation.

      At the age of fifteen, he was so well equipped that he was engaged to teach school in Maryland, at Gunpowder Falls, some of his pupils being so much larger and older than he that, at one time, he had to take a brand from the fire, and strike one of them, in order to gain ascendency over him.

      At eighteen, pocketing whatever money he had saved, he went to President Witherspoon, of the College of New Jersey, arranging with that divine to teach classes in order that he might afford to remain and study. While there, among his classmates may be counted James Madison, future president of the United States, Philip Freneau, the poet, and others of later note. Aaron Burr was a Junior at the time of Brackenridge's graduation, as was William Bradford. Though he was

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