Joseph Warren
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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. Provided by Wikipedia
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7Published 1887Contributors: “...Smith, Joseph W. (Joseph Warren), b. 1831. Gleanings from the sea : showing the pleasures, pains...”
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