“It was a horrific bloodletting, and provided the British high command with proof that the Americans were going to be a lot more difficult to subdue than had been hoped,” says the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson, whose second volume of a planned trilogy on the Revolution, “The Fate of the Day,” was published in April.
The US commemorates 250th anniversary of the 'great American battle,' the Battle of Bunker Hill
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The idea that it was self-evident all men were created equal was preposterous at a time when hundreds of thousands were enslaved," said Atkinson, who cites the 20th-century poet Archibald MacLeish's contention that “democracy is never a thing done.”
250 years after America went to war for independence, a divided nation battles over its legacy
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