The account of the loyalist Jones (_N. Y. during the Rev._, i. 52) has his usual twist of vision, though he is severe on Gage for "taking the bull by the horns" in making an attack in front. [Illustration: CHARLESTOWN PENINSULA, 1775. Sketched from a plan by Montresor, showing the redoubt erected by the British, after June 17, on the higher eminence of Bunker Hill. The original is in the library of Congress, where is a plan on a large scale of this principal redoubt.] The long list of general histories on the British side, detailing the events of the battle, begins with Murray's _Impartial Hist. of the War_ (London, 1778; Newcastle, 1782), and is made up during the rest of that century by the _Hist. of the War_ published at Dublin (1779-85); Hall's _Civil War in America_ (1780); _The Detail and Conduct of the Amer. War_ (1780); Andrews's _Hist. of the War_ (1785, vol. i. 301,—quoted at length by Ryerson, _Loyalists_, i. 461); Stedman, _Hist. Amer. War_ (London, 1794, vol. i. 125). The best of the later historians is Mahon (_Hist. of England_, vi.), who was forced to admit, when pressed upon the question, that the American claims of victory, which he says they have always held, appear only in the reports of later British tourists (vol. vi., App. xxix.). Lecky, in his brief account (_England in the Eighteenth Century_, iii. 463), makes an intention of Gage to fortify the Charlestown and not the Dorchester heights the incentive to the American occupation of the former. Edw. Bernard's _History of England_ (London) has a curious "View of the Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the burning of Charlestown." Something confirmatory, rather than of original value, can be gained from the histories of various regiments which took part in the battle, as detailed in the series of _Historical Records_ of such regiments.[574] * * * * * The battle almost immediately found commemoration in British ballads (_Hist. Mag._, ii. 58; v. 251; Hale's _Hundred Years Ago_, p. 7), and the slain were commemorated in elegiac verses, as in M. M. Robinson's _To a young lady, on the death of her brother, slain in the late engagement at Boston_ (London, 1776). The same year there appeared at Philadelphia _The Battle of Bunker's Hill, a dramatic piece in five acts, in heroic measure, by a gentleman of Maryland_. [Illustration: PLAN OF BUNKER HILL. NOTE.—The references in the corner of this cut, too fine to be easily read in this reduced fac-simile, are as follows:— "_A A._ First position, where the troops remained until reinforcements arrived. _B B._ Second position. _C C C._ Ground on which the different regiments marched to form the line. _D D._ Direction in which the attack was made upon the redoubt and breastwork. _E E._ Position of a part of the 47th and marines, to silence the fire of a barn at E. _F._ First position of the cannon. _G._ Second position of the cannon in advancing with the grenadiers, but stopped by the marsh.