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Title: Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Massachusetts Boston Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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efending fromthe country were demolished. The general remained ten daysin Boston. He attended the meetings of the Legislature, andon the 28th, accompanied by the other general officers and theirsuites, marched in procession from the Council Chamber to theOld Brick Church, where apj^ropriate services were held, afterwhich a dinner was provided for the general and his officers atthe Bunch of Grapes, in King Street. During his stay Wash-ington reviewed the Continental troops on the Common. The first national medal voted by Congress was presented toGeneral Washington for his successful conduct of the siege ofBoston, by a resolution passed March 25, 1776. It was struckin Paris from a die by Duvivier. Wilkes, in a speech delivered in Parliament on the evacua-tion, said : All the military men of this country now confessthat the retreat of General Howe from Boston was an absoluteflight; as much so, sir, as that of Mahomet from Mecca. One other grand martial pageant of the Revolutionary period
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THE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS. 433 remains to be chronicled. This was the entry of Eochamheausforces into Boston in December, 1782. The army was com-manded by the brave General Baron de Viomenil, Rochambeauhaving taken leave of his troops at Providence, returning witha part of his staff to France. The French army was di\T.ded into four grand divisions, towhich was added the field artillery. The second division wasthe first to arrive in the neighborhood of Boston, on the 4th,the first and third on the 5 th, and the fourth on the 6th. Theartillery did not arrive until the 18th. A few desertions oc-curred on the march, and the officers were obKged to exercisethe greatest \dgilance, as many of the poor fellows preferredremaining in the country to embarking for an unknown desti-nation. Notwithstanding it was midwinter, the troops, before enter-ing the town on the 7th, changed their diess in the open air,and appeared in such splendid array as gave but little hint oftheir long, weary march

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