Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 370
nning of the century. I have talked with those who haveseen the holes made by the soldiers for their kitchens, and theditches on the hill where the monument now stands. The strength of the British position may be inferred fromthe fact that Du Coudray, an experienced French officer ofartillery,… … »PH OO o oO oo A TOUE EOUND THE COMMON. 329 Behind the three-gun battery situated on Beacon Hill were anumber of ropewalks, bounding north on Myrtle Street, andoccupied in Eevolutionary times by Henderson Inches. Thiswas the camp of the British Light Horse, who used the rope-walks as their stables,…
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