2-710-098 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Battle of Bunker Hill', (1877). Battle near Charlestown, Massachusetts, which took place on 17 June 1775 in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. American patriot Joseph Warren (1741-1775) was killed fighting the British. Engraving after 'The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775', painting made 1815-1830 by John Trumbull, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. From "Our Country: a Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time", Volume 2, by Benson J. Lossing. [Johnson & Miles, New York, 1877]