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قراءة كتاب The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill
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The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill
THE MAN TOOK A STEP FORWARD
The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill
by
John T. McIntyre
Author of
“The Young Continentals at Lexington”
“The Young Continentals at Trenton”
Illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer.
The Penn Publishing Company
Philadelphia
MCMX
COPYRIGHT 1910 BY
THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I—HOW EZRA PRENTISS HEARD OF A STRANGER
- CHAPTER II—SHOWS HOW EZRA MET WITH GILBERT SCARLETT, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
- CHAPTER III—TELLS HOW EZRA ENTERED THE HOUSE OF ABDALLAH
- CHAPTER IV—TELLS WHAT BEFELL EZRA THEREIN
- CHAPTER V—HOW JASON COLLYER CAME TO THE “PLOW AND HARROW”
- CHAPTER VI—SHOWS HOW EZRA ADVENTURED TOWARD THE “INDIAN’S HEAD”
- CHAPTER VII—EZRA MEETS WITH A STRANGE EXPERIENCE
- CHAPTER VIII—EZRA MAKES UP HIS MIND TO A DANGEROUS VENTURE
- CHAPTER IX—IN WHICH EZRA FARES INTO THE CITY OF THE ENEMY, AND HEARS THE VOICE OF AN ACQUAINTANCE
- CHAPTER X—TELLS HOW ILL NEWS CAME TO GENERAL GAGE
- CHAPTER XI—TELLS HOW EZRA AND SCARLETT THRIVED IN BOSTON, AND HOW THEY LEFT IT IN THE NIGHT
- CHAPTER XII—SHOWS HOW EZRA AND THE ADVENTURER WON BY THE BRITISH FLEET
- CHAPTER XIII—SHOWS HOW EZRA RODE WITH PRESCOTT TOWARD BUNKER HILL
- CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH IS FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
- CHAPTER XV—SHOWS HOW EZRA CARRIED THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE, AND HOW HE MET GENERAL WASHINGTON BY THE WAY
- CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH EZRA LISTENS TO A DARING PLAN, AND HOW THREE SPIES LISTEN TO IT LIKEWISE
- CHAPTER XVII—TELLS OF A RIDE THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND OF HOW TICONDEROGA’S GUNS BEGAN THEIR JOURNEY
- CHAPTER XVIII—CONCLUSION
ILLUSTRATIONS
- The Man Took a step Forward
- “You Practice the Art of Healing, Sir”
- Dr. Warren Talked in the Same Strain
- General Gage Looked at the Speaker
- Putnam Struck the Table
- Nat Grasped the Hand of Washington
- No Time was Lost by Knox
INTRODUCTION
“The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill” tells of four boys who were with the American Army in the siege of Boston. It shows how Gage and the British Army were hemmed in by the colonial troops, tells of the stirring events in and about the beleaguered city, and finally of the heroic stand upon Breed’s Hill by Putnam, Prescott and the little patriot army. There is something also of the fights upon islands in the bay, of the coming of Washington to assume command, and the hoisting of the first American Union flag.
The same boys figured in an earlier volume, “The Young Continentals at Lexington.” Their adventures are equally stirring here, and the blows struck for liberty equally shrewd. This time Ezra Prentiss of