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Title: Antique views of ye towne of Boston
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Stark, James Henry
Subjects: Dwellings Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston : Published by ye Photo-electrotype engraving co. ...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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curiosity led them to watch its progress, wouldspeak slightingly of it and say, Gages mud walls are nothing toold Louisburg. and. if necessary, would be no more regarded thana beavers dam. The rccol.ection of that remarkable achievementcaused them to depreciate this comparatively slight barrier; butthe skill of Montresor, Gages engineer, soon made it formidableenough to deter the Americans from attempting an assault, whichcould hardly have ended otherwise than in failure. The Dover streetwork was called the Green Stone Battery. the warehouse, thenstanding on the site of the Williams Market, being of that color.Excavations just south of the market, in 1860, revealed the remainsof this old fort. The position of the advanced work, which wasmuch stronger, was between Dedham and Canton streets, a pointfrom which the first unobstructed view, in front, is obtained as faras Koxbury. It mounted twenty guns of heavy calibre, besidessix howitzers and a mortar battery. The redan was flanked by a
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ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 265 bastion on each side of the highway, from which the lines werecontinued across the marshes. The road passed through the centreof both lines, the first having a gate and drawbridge. A third andsmaller work, lying between the others, on the eastern sea margin,bore on Dorchester Neck (South Boston) and took the left curtainand bastion of the main work in reverse. After the battles ofLexington and Bunker Hill, these works became of great strata-getic importance, and were the principal lines of defence duringthe siege of Boston. Just one month before the siege began acommittee of the Provincial Congress on the present state of theoperations of the British army reported : That two mud breast-works have been erected on Boston Neck at the distance of about90 or 100 rods in front of the old fortifications, the works wellconstructed and well executed. The thickness of the merlons orparapet is about 9 feet, the height about 5 feet, the width of theditch at the top ab

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