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By May 1775, the siege of Boston had settled into several weeks of boredom.

The British in Boston and the New England Army surrounding that city were divided by Boston Harbor. Neither side could easily get at the other,

but many of the militia were eager to do something. On May 13th, Connecticut General Israel Putnam,

for no good reason, led 2,000 men onto the no-man's land in the Charlestown Peninsula.

The battalion marched across Bunker Hill, Breeds Hill, and threw the town down to the

water's edge.

There, they shouted at the naval vessels, with cannon pointed at them, and then eventually

turned around and marched back out of Charleston.

It was a dangerous move for no good purpose, since the Navy might have opened fire on them.

Putnam felt it was important to give the soldiers something to do, and idle army is a dangerous

one.

It also gave them the chance to test the enemy and see how

trigger-happy they were. British officers aboard the Somerset said they would have opened up on the

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