Footnote 191: Cobble.[(Back)]
Footnote 192: These, it is said, were the most perfect of any of the fortifications raised around Boston at that time.[(Back)]
Footnote 193: Seven miles northwest from Boston. It was then the seat of the revolutionary government in Massachusetts.[(Back)]
Footnote 194: Washington issued a notice, on the 28th of October, that tailors would be employed to make coats for those who wished them.[(Back)]
Footnote 195: This was a mistake. On the 13th of September, Colonel Benedict Arnold left Cambridge with a detachment to cross the country by the way of the Kennebec, to invade Canada and capture Quebec. Arnold's army suffered terribly on the march, and arrived at Point Levi, opposite Quebec, on the 9th of November, and prepared to attack the city. He was obliged to postpone his attack, and Quebec never fell into the hands of the patriots.[(Back)]
Footnote 196: Lechmere's.[(Back)]
Footnote 197: A nickname given to Bunker's hill.[(Back)]
Footnote 198: On the night of the 28th, an unsuccessful attempt was made to surprise the British outposts on Charlestown neck, and then to attack the enemy on Bunker's hill. The Americans started to cross from Cobble hill, on the ice. One of the men slipped and fell when they were half way across, and his gun went off. This alarmed the British, and they were on their guard. It was computed that, from the burning of Charlestown, on the 17th of June, until Christmas day, the British had fired more than two thousand shot and shells. They hurled more than three hundred bombshells at Plowed hill, and one hundred at Lechmere's point. Gordon says that, with all this waste of metal, they "killed only seven men on the Cambridge side, and just a dozen on the Roxbury side."[(Back)]
Footnote 199: Anno Domini.[(Back)]
Footnote 200: Fascines.[(Back)]