Note 1 — Prologue
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From the start, the site of the battle seems to have been called Bunker Hill, although it was actually fought on Breed’s Hill. The probable reason for this inaccuracy is that Bunker’s Hill was then 110 feet high, and the adjacent 62-foot-high Breed’s Hill was considered only a spur of the higher summit. Certainly, a contemporary British military map is entitled, “A Plan of the Action at Bunker’s Hill.”