Citation - Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia: 1775.10.02

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Index Entry Drummers, in Charlestown, British casualties 
Location Charlestown 
Citation
PP-P.775.051
2 Oct 1775:21, 22 (4/206)
Copy of a letter from the Honourable Lieutenant General Gage
to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston, June 25, 1775.
. . . [2 columns on the battle at Charlestown]
Return of the officers, con-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.
. . . 4th Foot. 
. . . 1 Drummer and fifer, 29 rank and file wounded.
5th.
. . . 2 Drummers and Fifers, 116 Rank and File wounded.
10th. 
. . . 1 Drummer and Fifer, 39 Rank and File wounded.
23d.
. . . 1 Drummer, 11 Rank and File, killed, . . . 1 Drummer
and Fifer, 35 Rank and File wounded.
35th.
. . . 2 Drummers, 41 Rank and File wounded.
38th.
. . . 1 Drummer and Fifer, 69 Rank and File wounded.
43d.
. . . 2 Drummers and Fifers, 77 Rank and File, wounded.
63d.
. . . 1 Drummer, 25 Rank and File wounded.
65th.
. . . 1 Drummer, 15 Rank and File wounded.
. . . Total.
. . . 1 Drummer, 191 Rank and File, killed.
. . . 12 Drummers, 706 Rank and File, wounded.
[signed] Thomas Gage.


Generic Title Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia 
Date 1775.10.02 
Publisher Dunlap, John 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1775 
Bibliography B0040196
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