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This newspaper article recounts significant events during the Battle of Bunker Hill, the cannonading of the American position in Charlestown from British guns on Copp's Hill in Boston's North End and the military actions that follow. The article contains a letter from a resident of Hingham, a town south of Boston, who was in Boston the day after the battle. It also contains a report from an unidentified source in Chelsea, just north of Charlestown, and an erroneous claim that either General Howe or General Burgoyne has been killed in action.