Charlestown Hero: Dr. Joseph Warren

Dr. Samuel A. Forman, author of Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill and the Birth of American Liberty will reveal how Warren collected military intelligence from a network of spies acting as patients. Warren served as president of the 1775 Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Dr. Warren learned of the British plan to march to Concord to seize munitions from the Minutemen. Warren sent Paul Revere and John Dawes to warn the patriots that the Regulars were coming.

Warren was appointed a Major General by the Provincial Congress 3 days before the Battle of Bunker Hill, but refused General Putnam and Colonel Prescott’s request that he become their commander. Instead, he volunteered as a private and went where the fighting was heaviest to rally the patriots against the British. Warren was killed on the final assault by the British with a musket ball to the head.

The presentation will be on November 12, 2014 from 7:00 to 8:00, the talk is free and open to the public. To be held in the Education Room of the Bunker Hill Museum. Presented by Charlestown Historical Society | www.charlestownhistoricalsociety.org