Colonel Prescott’s Troops Stand Firm on Breed’s Hill

Chappel, Alonzo, "Battle of Bunker's Hill: From the original painting in the possession of the publishers " (1866). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Rev. P. [Peter] Thatcher." New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Chappel, Alonzo, "Battle of Bunker's Hill" (1859). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Action on Breed's Hill, June 17th, 1775" New York Public Library Digital Collections.

This powder horn, made from a cow’s horn with a wood plug at the larger end, belonged to Sgt. Levi Gaschet during the Revolutionary War. Sergeant Gaschet enrolled in the Northborough Minutemen in 1775 and served at the Siege of Boston. The engraving on the horn commemorates his service on Dorchester Heights during the siege. American militia often provided their own equipment. Many of them carried a personal powder horn to keep gunpowder dry and to facilitate loading their muskets or rifles.