The Ballad of the Green Mountain Boys Ho--all to the borders! Vermonters, come down, With your...
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The Ballad of the Green Mountain Boys • Ho--all to the borders! Vermonters, come down, • With your britches of deerskin and jackets of brown; • With your red woolen caps and your moccasins come, • To the gathering summons of trumpet and drum. • Come down with your rifle! • Let gray wolf and fox • Howl on in the shadow of primitive rocks; • Let bear feed securely from pig-pen and stall; • Here's two-legged game for your powder and ball. • Then cheer, cheer, the green mountaineer, then cheer, cheer the green mountaineer • • On the south came the Hessians, our land to police; • And armed for the battle while canting of peace; • On our east came the British, the red coated band • To hang up our leaders and eat up our land. • Ho--all to the rescue! For Satan shall work • No gain for the legions of Hampshire and York! • They claim our possessions--the pitiful knaves-- • The tribute we pay shall be prisons and graves! • Then cheer, cheer, the green mountaineer, then cheer, cheer the green mountaineer • • We owe no allegiance, we bow to no throne, • Our ruler is law and the law is our own; • Our leaders themselves are our own fellow-men, • Who can handle the sword and the scythe and the pen • Hurrah for Vermont! For the land that we till • Must have sons to defend her from valley and hill • Our vow is recorded--our banner unfurled, • In the name of Vermont we defy all the world! • Then cheer, cheer, the green mountaineer, then cheer, cheer the green mountaineer
The Ballad of the Green Mountain Boys Ho--all to the borders! Vermonters, come down, With your britches of deerskin and jackets of brown; With your red
The Ballad of the Green Mountain Boys Ho--all to the borders!
Vermonters, come down, With your britches of deerskin and jackets
of brown; With your red woolen caps and your moccasins come, To the
gathering summons of trumpet and drum. Come down with your rifle!
Let gray wolf and fox Howl on in the shadow of primitive rocks; Let
bear feed securely from pig-pen and stall; Here's two-legged game
for your powder and ball. Then cheer, cheer, the green mountaineer,
then cheer, cheer the green mountaineer On the south came the
Hessians, our land to police; And armed for the battle while
canting of peace; On our east came the British, the red coated band
To hang up our leaders and eat up our land. Ho--all to the rescue!
For Satan shall work No gain for the legions of Hampshire and York!
They claim our possessions--the pitiful knaves-- The tribute we pay
shall be prisons and graves! Then cheer, cheer, the green
mountaineer, then cheer, cheer the green mountaineer We owe no
allegiance, we bow to no throne, Our ruler is law and the law is
our own; Our leaders themselves are our own fellow-men, Who can
handle the sword and the scythe and the pen Hurrah for Vermont! For
the land that we till Must have sons to defend her from valley and
hill Our vow is recorded--our banner unfurled, In the name of
Vermont we defy all the world! Then cheer, cheer, the green
mountaineer, then cheer, cheer the green mountaineer
Slide 2
The Battle of Bunker Hill Or More correctly the Battle of
Breeds Hilljust sayn
Slide 3
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly
on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the
American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent
Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was
the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is
occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill."Breed's
HillSiege of BostonAmerican Revolutionary War On June 13, 1775, the
leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the
British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to
occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city. In response to
this intelligence, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of
William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill,
constructed an earthen redoubt on Breed's Hill, and built lightly
fortified lines across most of the Charlestown
Peninsula.BostonWilliam Prescott redoubt When the British were
alerted to the presence of the new position the next day, they
mounted an attack against them. After two assaults on the colonial
lines were repulsed with significant British casualties, the
British finally captured the positions on the third assault, after
the defenders in the redoubt ran out of ammunition. The colonial
forces retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, suffering their
most significant losses on Bunker Hill.Cambridge