[4] The/Battle/of/Bunkers-Hill./A Dramatic Piece,/of Five Acts,/in Heroic Measure. /By a Gentleman of Maryland./--Pulcrumque mori succurrit in armis./Virgil./--'Tis glorious to die in Battle.--/Philadelphia:/ Printed and Sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street./MDCCLXXVI./ [Illustration: THE BATTLE OF BUNKERS-HILL. A DRAMATIC PIECE, OF FIVE ACTS, IN HEROIC MEASURE. BY A GENTLEMAN OF MARYLAND. ----_Pulcrumque mori succurrit in armis._ VIRGIL. 'Tis glorious to die in Battle. PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by ROBERT BELL, in Third-Street. MDCCLXXVI. FAC-SIMILE TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION] TO RICHARD STOCKTON, _Esquire_; MEMBER OF THE HONOURABLE, THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, for the State of NEW-JERSEY. SIR, I take the Freedom to Inscribe with YOUR Name, the following short Performance in Honour of some brave MEN, who have fallen in the Cause of LIBERTY. It was at first drawn up for an Exercise in Oratory, to a number of young Gentlemen in a southern Academy, but being now Published, may serve the same Purpose, in other AMERICAN Seminaries. The many Civilities, received from YOUR Family, at an earlier Period of my Life, while a Student at NEW-JERSEY College, demand the warmest Gratitude; and I do continually, with the most sincere Pleasure, recollect and acknowledge them. It is my fervent wish, that the Ruler of the Universe may Crown with Success, the Cause of FREEDOM, and speedily relieve our bleeding Country in whose Service YOU have distinguishedly exerted YOUR eminent Abilities, by assisting HER Deliberations in the grand Council of the Empire. SIR, I am, With great Respect, Your much obliged, and most humble Servant, THE AUTHOR. PROLOGUE to the BATTLE of BUNKERS-HILL _By a Lieutenant Colonel in the CONTINENTAL ARMY._