The main fighting actually happened a short distance away on Breed’s Hill. The commanding view of the harbor and Charlestown below, then swarming with Redcoats, must have been something. It was here that Colonel Prescott shouted his famous order, “Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes”!
“We have ... learned one melancholy truth, which is, that the Americans, if they were equally well commanded, are full as good soldiers as ours.”
--A British officer in Boston, after the battle
237 years ago today...