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    Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw it from the Belfry
    Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw it from the Belfry
    Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw it from the Belfry
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    Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw it from the Belfry

    By Oliver Wendell Holmes and Howard Pyle

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw it from the Belfry
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the “Breakfast Table” series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.

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      Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw it from the Belfry - Oliver Wendell Holmes

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, by

      Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle

      as She Saw it from the Belfry

      Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

      Illustrator: Howard Pyle

      Release Date: June 26, 2007 [EBook #21941]

      Language: English

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      Grandmother's Story

      of

      Bunker Hill Battle

      as She Saw it from the Belfry

      by

      Oliver Wendell Holmes

      With Illustrations by Howard Pyle

      Boston and New York

      Houghton Mifflin Company

      The Riverside Press Cambridge

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      The Riverside Press

      CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS

      PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

      GRANDMOTHER'S STORY

      of

      BUNKER HILL

      BATTLE

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