The Arizona sentinel., 1900-06-20


 lead CT wounded. "When the rnoke of battle cleared away there l ay tho Redcoats in windrows like l a mower rskes his hay"
 The second line took the place of the first and the Americans treated them to another volley. Every bullet found it's mark and another hundred fell.
 Julian Hawthorne says discipline and the trained courage of veterans will accomplish wonders, but there are some things which they cannot do. Only fanatics,or thosewho battle for what they hold dearer than life, can withstand certain slaughter. The English regulars, stumbling among the bodies oftheir own dead and still falling every moment could not prevail.
 They gave back; they turned; they ran; many flung away their arms. That parapet, that had been so silent, that had seemed so easy to' overcome suddenly loomed up as h;gh 8e heaven and as terrible as hell. Before it the pride of Eog- land gave way; headlong down the hill they rushed, bearing their strug- gling officers, furious with shame back with them, indifferent to their threats, prayers, oaths, and to the prick of their swords; back to the sheltering hillock, to the boats to the very waters of the placid river. The helpless terror of an initiation was upon them. Any thing to escape!
 A good many of the Americans were hurt and not a few were dead, bat the rest remained nercely tri- umphant. They chaered as Prescott
 walked among them and said "You
 did well; you can do it again; you
 gave them more than they bargain ed for"
 The Americans reload; there i:
 not much powder left but it vii, deal death while 1t lasts. The
 British veterans yielded to the ex- hortatlons of their officers and again faced death. They must succeed f this time. "Will you let it he tolC in England tLat you were be8teC fl by parcel of raw country bump kins?" was the shibboleth of thr
 officers. When the second advance s had reached distance of twenty
 five feet from the redoubt the Amer jeans again poured a stream of 6rt 9 and lead into their ranks, and they ? halted. The British officers coul, a not rally their men under that dead fly fire and back they rolled in con- f fusion with more disaster than the. - encountered at the first charge g Their knapsacks served as a shelte f against the pelting of the lead, bu a better shield was a distance o ] 500 yards which they reached il double quick time.
 3 Burgoyne on Copp's hill iowere' , his glass and shook his head , Never did I witness such a com plication of horror and importance, , was his quaint remark.
 The counsels of the British wer'
 now those of desperation. The decided that Bunker Hill, must b taken even at the cost of the entire British army, and had the Amer lican's powder held out they woulc probably have sacrificed the entirr Il army and not taken Bunker Hil either. Again the Britishers ad- vance while the Americans have jonly powder enough for one mor' volley. The British were not lons lin discovering the Americans plight and the battle became hand tc hand. General Warren was slair and General Prescott wounded
 TaeAmericans gave way to superio-
 mum bers and the British occupied the camp which has cost them st dearly. Ifdauntless hearts alon'
 could win battles, then with sucI 1 men as Warren and Prescott ct tht
 head ofau army 1t would be invinci-
 bIe. We presume that to have look
 ed upon these intrepid rnen during
 the fercest of the fighting ther, would have appeared no traces 0
 defeat. And what is defeat? Tht
 cause which has such defende,s a
 fought that day cannot be defeated though powder run short and bat, ties be lest. Bunker Hill was {