[123] "Writings of Washington," iii.
[124] Ibid.
[125] Henshaw's "Orderly Book."
[126] Ibid.
[127] Trevelyan's "Revolution," Part I.
CHAPTER XII
EVENTS IN BOSTON FROM JUNE TO DECEMBER, 1775
The history of events in Boston after the battle of Bunker Hill is of a quite different tenor from that which we have just been considering. From the time when the wounded, and the more distinguished of the dead, were carried over from Charlestown on the evening of the seventeenth of June, the sober truth struck home, not yet to the Tories and the common run of officers, but to the generals. They were in a tight place, from which it would be difficult to escape with credit.