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Battle of Bunker Hill Phase 1: Wiki Information: The famous order "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" was popularized in stories about the battle of Bunker Hill.[citation needed] It is uncertain as to who said it there, since various histories, including eyewitness accounts,[117] attribute it to Putnam, Stark, Prescott, or Gridley, and it may have been said first by one, and repeated by the others.

Phase 2: The Fact: The statement was later confirmed to originate from Col. William Prescott.

MLA Citation: “Bunker Hill, Battle Of.” The Great American History Fact-Finder, 2004.

ISBN: 9780618439416

Quote: The British lost 1,054 men and the colonists 449 in this bloodiest battle of the Revolution. Seen as a moral victory for the Americans, it inspired them to fight on for independence. Prescott's order in this battle became famous: “Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes!”

Phase 3: Martin, Lawrence. “WOMEN FOUGHT AT BUNKER HILL.” The New England Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1, Colonial Society of Massachusetts and the New England Quarterly, etc, 1935, p. 467.

This article helps provide information on women during the Battle of Bunker Hill. It shows the roles of colonist women at the time and how they helped both in battle and outside of battle. The article specifically follows Sarah Josepha Hale, who serves as an important figure and an example of the life of the average women during this point in history.

Potts, Jim. Ionian Islands and Epirus. Andrews UK Ltd, 2010.

In the Wikipedia article for Bunker Hill, it was mentioned that Phyrrus of Epirus was a Greek figure that showed a certain relevance to General Clinton. This allowed me novel allowed me to acquire an example of why Greece history was relevant to the Battle of Bunker Hill, as General Clinton had accommodating thoughts similar to Phyrrus of Greek times.

Phase 4: Paragraph 1: " In a New Hampshire village in 1825 Sarah Josepha Hale, a widow whose husband had left her the easily provided legacy of five children, was putting new life into the decrepit bon-nets of charitable neighbors. No radio brought to her, as she stitched, the stentorian periods of an orator who, from Bunker Hill, threw sonorous sentences like bouquets at the multi-tude. It was the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, and the noise was inspired by the laying of the corner-stone of an obelisk to which children and maiden teachers might repair on vacation tours. Patriotic burghers having decided that the nation owed two hundred and twenty vertical feet of local granite to the cause of national homicide, Webster struck his godlike pose. "

Summary: This paragraph explains the importance of Sarah Hale during Bunker Hill, as her and many other wWomen associated with the men of the Bunker Hill donated their own funds to mimick men’s subscription tactic. However, many men did not approve, saying that women have no rights to donate money from household resources.

Paragraph 2: "the works of Homer, Byron, Lear, the Durrell family, Louis de Bernières and Nicholas Gage, and with stories and legends about Sappho, Odysseus, King Pyrrhus, Ali Pasha, with My Family and Other Animals, Eleni and Captain Corelli, but I feel sure they will find something new to shock, delight or inspire."

Summary: All the following works were inspirations from Greek times that have affected the mindset of men during Bunker Hill. Most notably, King Pyrrhus, as a ruler, gave many ideas and opinions supported by leaders within the military of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

MLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.) Potts, Jim. The Ionian Islands and Epirus : A Cultural History. Andrews UK, 2010.