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John T. McIntyre
THE MAN TOOK A STEP FORWARD
The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill
by
John T. McIntyre
Author of
“The Young Continentals at Lexington” “The Young Continentals at Trenton”
Illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer.
The Penn Publishing Company
Philadelphia
MCMX
COPYRIGHT 1910 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I—HOW EZRA PRENTISS HEARD OF A STRANGER
CHAPTER II—SHOWS HOW EZRA MET WITH GILBERT SCARLETT, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
CHAPTER III—TELLS HOW EZRA ENTERED THE HOUSE OF ABDALLAH
CHAPTER IV—TELLS WHAT BEFELL EZRA THEREIN
CHAPTER V—HOW JASON COLLYER CAME TO THE “PLOW AND HARROW”
CHAPTER VI—SHOWS HOW EZRA ADVENTURED TOWARD THE “INDIAN’S HEAD”
CHAPTER VII—EZRA MEETS WITH A STRANGE EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER VIII—EZRA MAKES UP HIS MIND TO A DANGEROUS VENTURE
CHAPTER IX—IN WHICH EZRA FARES INTO THE CITY OF THE ENEMY, AND HEARS THE VOICE OF AN ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER X—TELLS HOW ILL NEWS CAME TO GENERAL GAGE
CHAPTER XI—TELLS HOW EZRA AND SCARLETT THRIVED IN BOSTON, AND HOW THEY LEFT IT IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XII—SHOWS HOW EZRA AND THE ADVENTURER WON BY THE BRITISH FLEET
CHAPTER XIII—SHOWS HOW EZRA RODE WITH PRESCOTT TOWARD BUNKER HILL
CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH IS FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
CHAPTER XV—SHOWS HOW EZRA CARRIED THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE, AND HOW HE MET GENERAL WASHINGTON BY THE WAY
CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH EZRA LISTENS TO A DARING PLAN, AND HOW THREE SPIES LISTEN TO IT LIKEWISE
CHAPTER XVII—TELLS OF A RIDE THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND OF HOW TICONDEROGA’S GUNS BEGAN THEIR JOURNEY
CHAPTER XVIII—CONCLUSION
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Man Took a step Forward
“You Practice the Art of Healing, Sir”
Dr. Warren Talked in the Same Strain
General Gage Looked at the Speaker
Putnam Struck the Table
Nat Grasped the Hand of Washington
No Time was Lost by Knox
INTRODUCTION
“The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill” tells of four boys who were with the American Army in the siege of Boston. It shows how Gage and the British Army were hemmed in by the colonial troops, tells of the stirring events in and about the beleaguered city, and finally of the heroic stand upon Breed’s Hill by Putnam, Prescott and the little patriot army. There is something also of the fights upon islands in the bay, of the coming of Washington to assume command, and the hoisting of the first American Union flag.
The same boys figured in an earlier volume, “The Young Continentals at Lexington.” Their adventures are equally stirring here, and the blows struck for liberty equally shrewd. This time Ezra Prentiss of the four boys has the leading rôle; once suspected of being an enemy to the colonies, he now proves that none can be more faithful than he.
Ezra and his friends appear again in a volume called “The Young Continentals at Trenton.” It tells something of the struggles about New York, and finally of the brilliant successes at Trenton and Princeton, in all of which the boys play their little parts bravely and well.