Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 243
troops to Boston in 1768. The engraving is from an originaldrawing, and shows the style of naval architecture in the lastcentury. Out of this tranqudhty we can with difficulty conjure up the scene of carnage that onceraged upon the hillside yon-der. Tlie still, starry nightthat 23receded the… … THE GLASGOW. Prescott, Putnam, and many more that heard The driim that beat at Louisburg and thundered in Quebec ! How strangely to their ears must have sounded the cry of theBritish sentinel, Alls well! as he paced where we nowstand. To the laborers on that sultry night this cry was hailedat every…
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