John Thomas McIntyre

CHAPTER I HOW EZRA PRENTISS HEARD OF A STRANGER

CHAPTER II SHOWS HOW EZRA MET WITH GILBERT SCARLETT, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

CHAPTER III TELLS HOW EZRA ENTERED THE HOUSE OF ABDALLAH

CHAPTER IV TELLS WHAT BEFELL EZRA THEREIN

CHAPTER V HOW JASON COLLYER CAME TO THE "PLOW AND HARROW"

CHAPTER VI SHOWS HOW EZRA ADVENTURED TOWARD THE "INDIAN'S HEAD"

CHAPTER VII EZRA MEETS WITH A STRANGE EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER VIII EZRA MAKES UP HIS MIND TO A DANGEROUS VENTURE

CHAPTER IX IN WHICH EZRA FARES INTO THE CITY OF THE ENEMY, AND HEARS THE VOICE OF AN ACQUAINTANCE

CHAPTER X TELLS HOW ILL NEWS CAME TO GENERAL GAGE

CHAPTER XI TELLS HOW EZRA AND SCARLETT THRIVED IN BOSTON, AND HOW THEY LEFT IT IN THE NIGHT

CHAPTER XII SHOWS HOW EZRA AND THE ADVENTURER WON BY THE BRITISH FLEET

CHAPTER XIII SHOWS HOW EZRA RODE WITH PRESCOTT TOWARD BUNKER HILL

CHAPTER XIV IN WHICH IS FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

CHAPTER XV SHOWS HOW EZRA CARRIED THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE, AND HOW HE MET GENERAL WASHINGTON BY THE WAY

CHAPTER XVI IN WHICH EZRA LISTENS TO A DARING PLAN, AND HOW THREE SPIES LISTEN TO IT LIKEWISE

CHAPTER XVII TELLS OF A RIDE THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND OF HOW TICONDEROGA'S GUNS BEGAN THEIR JOURNEY

CHAPTER XVIII CONCLUSION

John T. McIntyre

ILLUSTRATIONS

• The Man Took a step Forward
• “You Practice the Art of Healing, Sir”
• Dr. Warren Talked in the Same Strain
• General Gage Looked at the Speaker
• Putnam Struck the Table
• Nat Grasped the Hand of Washington
• No Time was Lost by Knox

INTRODUCTION

“The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill” tells of four boys who were with the American Army in the siege of Boston. It shows how Gage and the British Army were hemmed in by the colonial troops, tells of the stirring events in and about the beleaguered city, and finally of the heroic stand upon Breed’s Hill by Putnam, Prescott and the little patriot army. There is something also of the fights upon islands in the bay, of the coming of Washington to assume command, and the hoisting of the first American Union flag.

The same boys figured in an earlier volume, “The Young Continentals at Lexington.” Their adventures are equally stirring here, and the blows struck for liberty equally shrewd. This time Ezra Prentiss of the four boys has the leading rÔle; once suspected of being an enemy to the colonies, he now proves that none can be more faithful than he.

Ezra and his friends appear again in a volume called “The Young Continentals at Trenton.” It tells something of the struggles about New York, and finally of the brilliant successes at Trenton and Princeton, in all of which the boys play their little parts bravely and well.