Citation - Boston Gazette: 1775.10.09

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Index Entry Drummers, in Bunker's Hill, British casualties 
Location Bunker's Hill 
Citation
BG.775.014
9 Oct 1775:32 (1064)
General Gage's account of the Battle at Bunker's Hill, has
been already published:  The return that accompanied it, is
as follows, viz.
  Return of the officers, non-commission officers, and
privates, killed and wounded, of his Majesty's troops, at
the attack of the redoubts and intrenchments on the heights
of Charles-Town, June 17, 1775. . .
  5th.  Capts. Harris Jackson, Downs, and Marsden, lieuts,
Mc Clintock and Croker, Ensigns, Charlton and Baleguire,
wounded, 22 rank and file killed, 32 serjeants, 2 drummers
and fifers, 116 rank and file, wounded.
  10th. . . 1 drummer and fifer, 39 rank and file, wounded.
. .
  23d.  Capt Blakeney,. . . 2 serjeants 1 drummer, 11 rank
and file, killed.  2 serjeants, 1 drummer and fifer, 35 rank
and file, wounded.
  35th.  Lieut. Baird killed. . . 3 serjeants, 2 drummers,
41 rank and file, wounded.
  38th. . . 4 serjeants, 1 drummer and fifer, 69 rank and
file, wounded.
  43.  Major Spendlove, capt. M'Kenzie, lieuts. Robinson and
Dalrymple, wounded. . . 3 serjeants, 2 drummers and fifers,
77 rank and file wounded. . .
  63d. . .2 serjeants, 1 drummer, 25 rank and file, wounded.
  65th. . . 1 serjeant, 1 drummer, 25 rank and file wounded.
. .
  Total.
1 Lieutenant colonel, 2 majors, 7 captains, 9 lieutenants,
15 serjeants, 1 drummer, 191 rank and file, killed.  3
majors, 27 campains, 32 lieutenants, 8 ensigns, 40
serjeants, 12 drummers, 706 rank and file, wounded. . .


Generic Title Boston Gazette 
Date 1775.10.09 
Publisher Edes, Benjamin, at Watertown 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1775 
Bibliography B0006525
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