John Adams, a delegate from Massachusetts in the Second Continental Congress, wrote a letter to fellow delegate James Warren which expressed great dissatisfaction with the performance of General Ward, who remained in Cambridge during the battle and appointed no senior commander to control all the colonial troops at Bunker’s Hill. Adams had nothing but praise, however, for Maj. Gen. Joseph Warren, who chose to fight as a common enlisted soldier so General Putnam, an older man with far more military experience, could supervise the battle. Warren died defending Breed’s Hill.
"“We more than once repulsed by the Bravery of our men in the Imperfect Lines hove up the Night before, who had they been supplied with Ammunition, and a Small reinforcement of Fresh men, would thus under every disadvantage have in all probability beat them to peices. Here fell our
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