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Book: Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
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  1. Nathaniel Philbrick _ Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege,

    Part of what makes a revolution such a fascinating subject to study is the arrival of the moment when neutrality is no longer an option. Like it or not, a person has to choose.
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  2. Nathaniel Philbrick _ Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege,

    Paul Revere Jr., with whom I had lunch at Spanky's Clam Shack in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
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  3. Nathaniel Philbrick _ Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege,

    Warren had a most unusual household. A recent widower with four children between the ages of two and eight, he was not only a leading patriot but also had one of the busiest medical practices in Boston. He had two apprentices living with him on Hanover Street, and he sometimes saw as many as twenty patients a day. His practice ran the gamut, from little boys with broken bones, like John Quincy Adams, to prostitutes on aptly named Damnation Alley,
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  4. Nathaniel Philbrick _ Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege,

    This is also the story of two British generals. The first, Thomas Gage, was saddled with the impossible task of implementing his government's unnecessarily punitive response to the Boston Tea Party in December 1773.
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  5. Nathaniel Philbrick _ Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege,

    When a group of frontiersmen camped on the middle fork of Elkhorn Creek heard about the militiamen's deaths in Massachusetts, they decided to name their outpost for the historic event. That is why what was then a part of Virginia is known today as Lexington, Kentucky.
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