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Today, the many Blake relatives in Neponset and Kewanee can celebrate the first battle of the American Revolution with special pride. 248 years ago their fifth Great Grandfather and sixth Great Grandfather were part of this critical battle.
Battle of Bunker Hill, also called Battle of Breed’s Hill, (June 17, 1775), first major battle of the American Revolution, fought in Charlestown (now part of Boston) during the Siege of Boston. Although the British eventually won the battle, it was a Pyrrhic victory that lent considerable encouragement to the revolutionary cause. Within two months after the Battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775), more than 15,000 troops from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island had assembled in the vicinity of Boston. The goal of this force was to prevent the 5,000 or more British troops stationed there
HALIFAX The community is rallying behind the family of a lineworker killed while helping to restore power during an outage on Dec. 1 on Reed Hill Road.