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"What! 10,000 peasants keep 5,000 king's troops shut up? Well, let us get in, and we'll soon find elbow room!" -General John Burgoyne
"I cannot answer for his men, but Prescott will fight you to the gates of Hell." -Abijah Willard, aid to General Gage
"Gentlemen, I am very happy in having the honor of commanding so fine a band of men. I do not in the least doubt that you will behave like Englishmen and becomrth good Soldiers. If the enemy will not come out of their entrenchments, we must drive them out at all events. Otherwise, the town of Boston will be set on fire by them. I shall not desire one of you to go a step farther than where I go myself at your head. Remember, gentlemen, we have no recourse to any other resourses if we lose Boston but to go on board our ships, which will be very disagreeable to us all" -General Howe
"Dearbone, one freash man in action is worth 10 fatigued men" -General Stark (American)
"The average American fighting man is more afraid of an injury to his legs than of one to his head. Get him behind a trench and an American would fight forever" -General Israel Putnam (American)
"Come, my little girl, drink a glass of wine with me for the last time, for I am going to the hill tomorrow and I shall never come off." -Joseph Warren
"Don't fire until you sdee the whites of their eyes." -General Israel Putnam
"There...see that officer...let us have a shot at him" -Americans as they sniped British Officers
"Retreat! Retreat! Or you'll all be cut off" -Colonel Smuell Gerrish, commander of reinforcements, as he saw the British attack again. It was widely believed that if those reinforcements had made it to Breed's Hill, the British would have been turned back.
"Soldiers must inure themselves to any hardship. They shouldn't even recognize heat and cold." -Major Pitcairn reacting to a captain compaining of the heat.
"Why did you not support me general, with your men? -Colonel Prescott
"I could not drive the dogs up." -General Putnam
"If you could not dive them up, you might have lead them up." -Colonel Prescott
"A few such victories would ruin the Army" -A British Colonel as he was dying.
"We have got a little elbow room, but I think we have paid too dearly for it." -a British soldier after the battle
"I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price." -Nathanael Green
All quotes from Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by AJ Langguth
"I cannot answer for his men, but Prescott will fight you to the gates of Hell." -Abijah Willard, aid to General Gage
"Gentlemen, I am very happy in having the honor of commanding so fine a band of men. I do not in the least doubt that you will behave like Englishmen and becomrth good Soldiers. If the enemy will not come out of their entrenchments, we must drive them out at all events. Otherwise, the town of Boston will be set on fire by them. I shall not desire one of you to go a step farther than where I go myself at your head. Remember, gentlemen, we have no recourse to any other resourses if we lose Boston but to go on board our ships, which will be very disagreeable to us all" -General Howe
"Dearbone, one freash man in action is worth 10 fatigued men" -General Stark (American)
"The average American fighting man is more afraid of an injury to his legs than of one to his head. Get him behind a trench and an American would fight forever" -General Israel Putnam (American)
"Come, my little girl, drink a glass of wine with me for the last time, for I am going to the hill tomorrow and I shall never come off." -Joseph Warren
"Don't fire until you sdee the whites of their eyes." -General Israel Putnam
"There...see that officer...let us have a shot at him" -Americans as they sniped British Officers
"Retreat! Retreat! Or you'll all be cut off" -Colonel Smuell Gerrish, commander of reinforcements, as he saw the British attack again. It was widely believed that if those reinforcements had made it to Breed's Hill, the British would have been turned back.
"Soldiers must inure themselves to any hardship. They shouldn't even recognize heat and cold." -Major Pitcairn reacting to a captain compaining of the heat.
"Why did you not support me general, with your men? -Colonel Prescott
"I could not drive the dogs up." -General Putnam
"If you could not dive them up, you might have lead them up." -Colonel Prescott
"A few such victories would ruin the Army" -A British Colonel as he was dying.
"We have got a little elbow room, but I think we have paid too dearly for it." -a British soldier after the battle
"I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price." -Nathanael Green
All quotes from Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by AJ Langguth