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	Boston, Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boston is the capital and the largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
		The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and several early battles occurred in or near the city, including Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston.
		Boston University, now the city's second largest employer and one of the largest private universities in the country, was originally established in Vermont before moving to its present campus in the mid-20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boston (4361 words)

	Siege of Boston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 - March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the active American Revolutionary War.
		As a siege it was only partially successful, but it played an important role in the creation of a real Continental Army and promoting the unity of the colonies.
		The siege started on the night after the Battle of Lexington and Concord as American forces followed the British back to Boston, and occupied the neck of land extending to the peninsula the city stood on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Boston (642 words)

	Bambooweb: Boston Massachusetts
		Boston is the county seat of Suffolk County.
		The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and several of the early battles of the revolutionary war (such as the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston) occurred near the city.
		Boston is bordered by the cities of Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, and Quincy, and the towns of Winthrop, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, and Milton.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/b/o/Boston__Massachusetts.html (2297 words)

	Battle of Bunker Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bunker Hill was a battle of the American Revolutionary War that took place on June 17, 1775 during the Siege of Boston.
		Boston had been occupied by the British army since 1768.
		Bunker Hill is an elevation at the rear of the peninsula, and Breed's Hill is near the Boston end, while the town of Charlestown occupied the flats at the southern end.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill (1470 words)

	All About Boston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Greater Boston is one of the top-ten largest metropolitan areas in the United States, the fifteenth in the Americas, and the one of the top-fifty largest in the world.
		Boston is home to a wide range of musical talent, from bands like the Cars, Dropkick Murphys and Boston to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the Boston Philharmonic, and the Boston Lyric Opera Company.
		Boston College was the first institution of higher education to be founded in Boston, though it moved from the city's South End to then-rural Chestnut Hill to escape Boston's rapid urbanization in the late nineteenth century.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0405/travel/boston.html (2766 words)

	The Seige of Boston
		It was not till the stock of the garrison was nearly exhausted, that the transports from England entered the port of Boston and relieved the distresses of the garrison.
		In order to supply the new army before Boston with the necessary means of defence, an application was made to Massachusetts for arms, but on examination it was found that their public stores afforded only two hundred.
		The many eminences in and near Boston which overlooked the ground on which it was expected that the contending parties would engage were crowded with numerous spectators.
	www.myrevolutionarywar.com /battles/750517.htm (2224 words)

	Distrust shadows anniversary of Russian hostage siege - The Boston Globe
		A confidential military prosecutor's review of the siege obtained by the Los Angeles Times, along with interviews with former hostages and a government videotape of the carnage, suggests a chaotic operation with little or no communication among military units.
		Two months later, Murat Katsanov, a local driver, was at a dump outside town when he stumbled upon a pile of refuse that caused his hair to stand on end: clumps of human tissue and identity documents belonging to a hostage at the gym.
		For some Beslan residents, the idea that flamethrowers, and not the initial explosions, caused the blaze emerged when they approached the school after dark in the days after the siege and saw what they came to believe were hints of phosphorus, which is a telltale element of a napalm-type flamethrower.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/31/distrust_shadows_anniversary_of_russian_hostage_siege (1155 words)

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		Boston Tea Party and several of the early battles of the revolutionary war (such as the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston) occurred near the city.
		Boston University and Tufts University brought thousands of bright students to the area; many stayed and became citizens.
		Boston Harbor Islands, many of which are open to the public.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts (2102 words)

	The Daily Apocrypha...Archives
		To be accurate, the Siege (yes, capitalized) of Boston began in April 1775, but all the British had to do to "begin" was sit there in British-held Boston.
		The nitty-gritty of the Siege didn't happen right away, but since the little notches on the timelines have to go somewhere, historians pegged the beginning of the Siege of Boston at April 20, 1775.
		So I looked up the Siege of Boston in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and sent him the information in private mail: my corrections to him, as it were, without any speculation as to whether he had ingested oral laxatives.
	www.dailyapocrypha.com /oped/042098.shtml (598 words)

	Siege of Boston
		Some riflemen from Maryland, Virginia, and Western Pennsylvania, led by Daniel Morgan, a man of sturdy frame and unflinching courage, who had seen service in the French and Indian War, joined the army soon afterward.
		Washington immediately began the siege of Boston by so disposing his forces as to confine the British to the peninsula and the adjacent islands and shores.
		Their sentries occupied Charlestown Neck; floating batteries were moored in Mystic River, near Bunker's Hill, and a twenty-gun ship was anchored at the ferry between Boston and Charlestown.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_vol_2/siegeofb_gh.html (332 words)

	The American Revolution (Fort Ticonderoga)
		Once the British detachment retreated to Boston, the Siege of Boston began.
		As the rebels continued to gather around Boston, they realized that they did not have the munitions or cannon to carry out successful siege or military operations.
		Meanwhile, Benedict Arnold, who had been on his way to participate in the siege at Boston, convinced the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to authorize his expedition.
	theamericanrevolution.org /battles/bat_ftic.asp (334 words)

	Boston, Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Boston television DMA, which also includes Manchester, New Hampshire, is the fifth largest in the United States http://www.nielsenmedia.com/DMAs.html.
		Many of the Boston Harbor Islands are part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area that is run by the National Park Service.
		Boston is a sister city (that is, a twinned town) of these municipalities:
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Boston,-Massachusetts.htm (3927 words)

	Lee.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Boston occupied by the British army was under siege.
		Shortly after the closing of the Congress, the three generals left for the camp at Cam bridge to direct the siege of Boston.
		During the Boston siege, Washington thought of his generals as unreliable.
	www.scarsdaleschools.k12.ny.us /wilson/Lee.htm (1373 words)

	The Tribes and the States, Boston History
		It is true, the Boston Port Bill, which had in a way brought about this situation, and which was responsible for the military government, forbade ships from using the port of Boston, but that was easily taken care of by special military permits, which, on account of the emergency, were readily granted.
		Thus, while the insurgents were solidifying their position surrounding Boston, the British were simply watching for signs of some new activity; their experience at Lexington and Concord was a warning against another attempt to invade Middlesex directly, while the trenches at Boston Neck (now the South End) effectively kept them from leaving Boston by land.
		It was planned to make the assault on Boston by the same route as the Puritans in 1630 made their charge on Boston's predecessor, the red town of Shawmut; consequently it was planned to occupy the Mishawum peninsula, which the British called Charlestown, preparatory to an advance on Boston itself.
	www.sidis.net /TSChap21.htm (4669 words)

	Point magazine for Jan 1956 edited by Fr Leonard Feeney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Boston Jews have played a prominent, and often exclusive, part in the operation of such fl-listed outfits as the Boston School for Marxist Studies, the League for Democratic Control, the Progressive Labor School, and the Boston School of Social Science.
		Zionist summer camps in the Boston area are now known to be the hatching-place of those terrorist gangs which were unleashed in the Boston streets last Fall to crush Saint Benedict Center’s protest against Brandeis University.
		Boston Catholics began to wake up to the Jewishness of the “Committee” and they began to resent very much having their names used all over town as “letter-head patrons” for whatever scheme might enter the mind of Rappaport.
	www.fatherfeeney.org /point/56-jan.html (2111 words)

	Boston, Siege of -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The largest city in New England, Boston is the center of regional trade and culture.
		The incident known as the Boston Massacre was the climax of several brawls in Boston, Mass., where workers and sailors clashed with British soldiers who were enforcing British Parliament's laws in the town.
		Collection of maps from The Siege of Charlestown, The Battle of Saratoga, Boston circa 1800, The Siege of Quebec, The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, General Washington's battle engagements in 1776, and North America in 1797.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9015831?tocId=9015831 (806 words)

	Operations: New England Theater
		Amory, Thomas C. "Siege of Newport, R.I. in 1778." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 17 (September 1879), pp.
		History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill.
		General Sir William Howe's Orderly Book at Charlestown, Boston and Halifax June 17, 1775 to 1776 26 May; to which is added the official abridgement of General Howe's correspondence with the English Government during the siege of Boston, and some military returns and now first printed from the original manuscripts.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/revbib/neo.htm (2294 words)

	Writing the Siege of Leningrad - Boston College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose" chronicles the women of World War II Leningrad, who were the victims of a German blockade that forced them to struggle to survive despite severe deprivation.
		Most of the men and boys were sacrificed to the war effort, leaving mainly women and children to endure the horrors of extreme deprivation caused by the blockade.
		Simmons and Perlina, a survivor of the siege, have collected memoirs and oral histories from women who lived through this ghastly drama and melded them into a powerful narrative.
	www.bc.edu /offices/omc/whatwedo/events (328 words)

	Pro-animal duo busted in terror siege (Environuts call Boston home) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A violent international animal activist group launched a siege of terror on a Back Bay father and other employees of a Hub insurance firm they claim has ties to a controversial British lab that does animal testing, authorities said yesterday.
		The two were arraigned yesterday in Boston Municipal Court on charges of stalking, extortion, criminal harrassment and threats to commit a crime.
		Lotts, who led some of the protests outside Harper's home, told members the strategy was to put the Harpers and others under a ``state of siege,'' prosecutors said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/736170/posts (1824 words)

	MSN Encarta - Black Military Heroes
		Crispus Attucks led the 1770 uprising against British troops that resulted in the Boston Massacre.
		It is alleged that he cried out, "Don't be afraid!" as he led the crowd of protesters against armed British soldiers.
		Lemuel Haynes served as a minuteman during the American Revolution, fighting at the siege of Boston and at Fort Ticonderoga.
	encarta.msn.com /list_blackmilitaryheroes/Black_Military_Heroes.html (743 words)

	The Massachusetts Historical Society \| Object of the Month
		The manuscript "Prologue for Opening the Theatre at Boston when it was garrisoned by the British Troops under Command of Sir Wm.
		Because of the early ban and lingering disapproval of public performances, amateur theater in New England was immensely popular and continued on through the 19th and into the 20th century-long after public theater had taken hold in Boston.
		Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1978.
	www.masshist.org /objects/2004march.cfm?display=print (590 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bunker Hill, battle of (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Detachments of colonial militia under Artemas Ward, Nathanael Greene, John Stark, and Israel Putnam laid siege to Boston shortly after the battles of Lexington and Concord.
		However, Thomas Gage, British commander in the city, made no attempt to break the siege until he was reinforced (in May) by troops led by William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, and John Burgoyne.
		The British victory failed to break the siege, and the gallant American defense heightened colonial morale and resistance.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BunkerHi.html (309 words)

	The Siege . The Boston Phoenix . 11-09-98
		Of all the images of nightmare and violence in Edward Zwick's timely, tense, ultimately unconvincing The Siege, perhaps the most jolting is that of President Clinton in a TV broadcast declaring war against terrorism following the recent bombings in Africa.
		But The Siege has other issues on its mind as it walks a fine line between exploitation and genuine insight while exploring how efforts to eradicate outside threats to our system can end up being worse than the threats themselves.
		Little of this holds together in retrospect, and all ends in dutiful speechifying, none of which compares in impact to the stunned horror in Washington's eyes as he witnesses a busload of innocents obliterated, or the sight of a naked man in a lavatory singled out to pay the price.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/boston/s/siegethe1.html (274 words)

	HistoryCentral.com - Your Source for Everything History -> America's Wars > Revolutionary War> Major Events ...
		After the Battle of Bunker Hill the British remained in Boston, surrounded by an ever growing number of Continental soldiers.
		Finally, after the Americans who were now commanded by General Washington occupied Dorchester Heights, the British were forced to withdraw from Boston.
		The author describes how the events in Lexington and Concord enflmaed the people of Boston and forced the British to withdraw.
	www.multied.com /revolt/Boston.html (96 words)

	Siege of Boston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As a siege it was only particularly successful, but it played an important role in the creation of a real Continental Army and promoting the unity of the colonies.
		Then, in the winter of 1775-1776 Alexander Hamilton and his engineers used sledges to retrieve the heavy cannons that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga.
		It was anchored in a shallow harbor with limited maneuverability and under the American guns on Dorchester Heights.
	www.city-search.org /si/siege-of-boston.html (699 words)

	Evacuation Day (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		March 17 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts is Evacuation Day, an official holiday commemorating the evacuation of the city of Boston by British forces on March 17, 1776 (see Siege of Boston or American Revolutionary War).
		Evacuation Day is also observed in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		Patrick's Day which gives Boston's large Irish and Irish descendant population an additional reason to celebrate.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Evacuation_Day_(Massachusetts) (142 words)

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