Samuel Graves
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Admiral Samuel Graves was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War and American War of Independence.
Portrait by James Northcote
Battle of Bunker Hill
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachuse
Samuel Graves
…17 June 1775, his sailors again helped ferry troops, this time to the Charlestown Peninsula, while several of his ships provided fire support for the pyrrhic victory at Bunker Hill. During the Siege of Boston, Admiral Graves, on 6 October 1775, ordered Lieutenant Henry Mowatt, commanding the armed vessel HMS Canceaux, to destroy…
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 John Trumbull, 1815–1831
The Bunker Hill Monument
Ralph Farnham, one of the last survivors
Sketch of the Battle of Bunker Hill, printed in August 1775.