BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
"So Joey, I am going to tell you everything exactly how it happened:We are in position getting ready for British attack, and we find out that the British were going to occupy Worchester Heights a couple of days later. We decide to occupy Bunker Hill as a counter attack. There was 2 gunners set up on Bunker Hill, Private Maurice and I. Ralphy is Maurice's step brother and he is general of the 18th regiment. Maurice and I are ready for battle we are set up and waiting. We spot The first battle starts and the British attack us. They move in quickly in columns of four. They are marching towards Stark's line of nervous militiamen. The leading company for the British attack is called the Royal Welch Fusiliers. They get within 50 yards and get ready for charge when stark gives us order to fire. We tear up the British front column. Gunshots fly through the air, and British soldiers are just dropping to the floor. I am watching from my station at Bunker Hill as General Ralphy is shot to death. I run to him, take the musket from his hand and place it on the floor. I rip of the sleeve of my jacket and tightly wrap it around his gun wound. I watch as
"So you see this is everything that happened at Bunker Hill exactly as it happened. American Strength was in excess of 3,000 men, 301 of our men were wounded. I was one of them but thanks to the nurse who helped me heal I was a survivor. 441 of our men were killed, while the British had lost almost half of its men. This was the end of the battle. The remaining survivors had gone back to their families. Me and Rossella the American nurse went to live on an island off of the coast of Florida. No one ever heard from us again not even our families." gunshot and thought he had shot me. I look to the side and found out Private Abreu has walked in. He saw General Howe pointing the gun at us, and he shoots him from the back. The nurse and I run away and are never seen again." forced to retreat, but I the second gunman still have not been found and was killing off all We also come across some of our men that were still alive. We had to drag them to the fort were first aid is provided. The nurse for our American troops named Rossella is assigned to help our injured men. Little did we know, that she is running a sting operation with the British, instead of helping our men she kills them. She stops them from breathing and watches them as they suffocat to death. We are slowly losing more and more men because of this. The second attack is repulsed. 15 of our men, who are now killed in cold blood.
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Approximate Word count = 976
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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