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When Harvard came under fire
By adamg on Sat, 03/27/2010 - 11:00am
J.L. Bell recounts the shelling of Harvard by Redcoats before the British evacuated Boston:
... One day, during the siege of Boston, a shell thrown by the British from Copp's Hill struck the ground in the square near the President's house. The fuze was yet burning; and a soldier went and stamped it out, at the risk of his life. ...
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copp's hill to harvard?
could an 18th-century cannon really strike that far???