Broadside, "Account of the Bloody Battle on Bunker Hill, an Elegiac Poem..." 1775

This broadside dates from the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. It recounts the Battle of Bunker Hill, where American rebels repulsed two British assaults before losing their position near Boston. British victory was costly, and colonists commemorated the encouraging clash with a poem and acrostic dedicated to Joseph Warren - a leading Patriot killed in action at Bunker Hill.