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Welcome to Call to Decision
Subject: American Minute - Feb. 20 - William
Prescott & the Battle of Bunker Hill
American Minute with Bill Federer
February 20
A Revolutionary War Colonel, he built the fortifications at
Breed's
Hill and commanded the militia at the Battle of Bunker Hill in
1775.
He fought in the Battle of Long Island in 1776 and the Battle of
Saratoga in 1777.
His name was William Prescott, born FEBRUARY 20, 1726.
After the Boston Tea Party, where colonists threw 342 chests of
British East India tea overboard, Parliament passed the Boston
Port
Bill, blockading the harbor and starving the inhabitants.
The Committee of Correspondence sent word to the other Colonies,
who
called a Day of Fasting and Prayer, June 1, 1774, "to seek
divine
direction and aid."
In August of 1774, William Prescott led the men of Pepperell,
Massachusetts, to deliver loads of rye to Boston's inhabitants,
telling them:
"We heartily sympathize with you, and are always ready to do
all in
our power for your support, comfort and relief, knowing that
Providence has placed you where you must stand the first
shock."
William Prescott continued:
"We consider that we are all embarked in (the same boat) and
must
sink or swim together. Let us all be of one heart, and stand fast
in
the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. And may He, of His
infinite mercy, grant us deliverance of all our troubles."
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