Joseph Warren
Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775), a
Founding Father of the United States, was an American
physician who was one of the most important figures in the
Patriot movement in
Boston during the early days of the
American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary
Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Warren enlisted
Paul Revere and
William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm that the British garrison in Boston was setting out to raid the town of
Concord and arrest rebel leaders
John Hancock and
Samuel Adams. Warren participated in the
Battles of Lexington and Concord the following day, the opening engagements of the
American Revolutionary War.
Warren had been commissioned a
major general in the colony's militia shortly before the June 17, 1775
Battle of Bunker Hill. Rather than exercise his rank, Warren chose to participate in the battle as a
private soldier, and was killed in combat when British troops stormed the
redoubt atop
Breed's Hill. His death, immortalized in
John Trumbull's painting, ''
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775'', galvanized the rebel forces. Warren has been memorialized in the naming of many towns, counties, streets, and other locations in the United States, by statues, and in numerous other ways.
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