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Title: A comic history of the United States
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927
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Publisher: New York American book exchange
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he American side, while one General Hillled the British. On this memorable occasion the Ameri-cans managed to destroy a thousand or soof the enemy, and might have done betterhad their supply of bullets held out.These becoming exhausted the noble fel-lows fell back upon the brass buttons of 100 SANOUINARY CONDUCT, their uniforms, wlii^li they fired at the Brit-ish as long as there was a button left amongthem. The brave Bunker, when his stock ofbuttons gave out, bethought him of hisfalse teeth. He removed them from hismouth, and with fire in his eye and ahorse-pistol in his right hand, (holdingon his buttonless uniform with his left,)he turned upon the enemy a galling fireof store teeth, and every one of themtook effect, making sixteen of the red-coatsbite the dust. In his official report of the battle whichhe sent to Congress the heroic man avers:that, if there had been a dentist handy toextract em, he would have sacrificed everydashed natural tooth in his head for thecause of Liberty.
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101 102 HEROISM REWARDED. As a reward for his heroic conduct, Con-gress had him measured for a new set ofelegant silver-mounted molars, which itpromised to present to him some day withan appropriate inscription. And yet theysay Republics are ungrateful! For further information regarding thisgreat battle, see illustration. There wasa monument erected upon the spot tocommemorate the battle, and should youever go to Boston you will probably beasked, Have you tried our baked beans,and have you seen Bunker Hill monu-ment ? CHAPTER XIX, STILL KEVOLUTIONARY-THE FIRST FOURTH OF JULY TAKESPLACE—DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE—AN ABLEDOCUMENT—PARLIAMENT IS MUCH MOVED AND GETSOUT YELLOW HANDBILLS. One hot sultry day in tlie summer of1776 Thomas Jefferson eased Ms mind inan essay called the Declaration of Inde-pendence, which said in effect that theUnited Colonies of America had saved upmoney enough to start in business for them-selves, and henceforth there was to be noconnection with over the

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